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An Alien Sky: The story of one man's remarkable adventure in Bomber Command duri
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 1909808253
- Publication Name
- Grub Street Publishing
- Book Title
- Alien Sky : The Story of One Man's Remarkable Adventure in Bomber Command During the Second World War
- Item Length
- 9.5in
- Publisher
- Grub Street
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, Military / Aviation, Military
- Item Width
- 6.3in
- Item Weight
- 18.7 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
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By any measure, Andrew Wiseman (born Weizman) is a lucky man. The only son of a Polish father and an American mother, Andy was born and grew up in Berlin, just as Adolf Hitler was coming to power. As a Jew educated at the famous Werner Siemens Real Gymnasium in Schoneberg, he left only months before his school was closed down and fled with his family to Poland, one step ahead of the Nazi persecution that was to follow and later take the life of his father. From Poland he again fled to England, this time without his parents, arriving as a 16-year-old with little or no grasp of English. After a crash course in the language, he avoided being called up into the Polish army in exile thanks to the timely intervention of no less a man than General Sikorski himself, to enlist in the RAF to train initially as a pilot and then as an air bomber in South Africa. On his return to the UK he was posted to an all-Australian Squadron (466 Squadron) equipped with the Handley Page Halifax. After his first operation in which he was nearly shot down, Andrew survived a handful of eventful trips before falling victim to one of the Luftwaffe's top night fighter pilots and landing in France. Briefly on the run he was betrayed and captured, spending the next 12 months as a prisoner of war, using his knowledge of Russian, Polish and German to act as one of the principal camp interpreters, and working as a 'scrounger' for the 'X' committee of escapers. Moved from camp to camp, he was one of those forced into the 'Long March' by the Germans attempting to escape the Russian advance, and afterwards played a key role in avoiding the potential bloodshed that threatened when the Russians refused to allow the British and Norwegian prisoners to return home - a role for which he was later recognized by the King of Norway. Upon his release, Andy used his language skills to work with the BBC monitoring service and later, BBC Television as a producer, sharing many adventures with the great broadcasters of their time, including David Dimbleby and Raymond Baxter.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Grub Street
ISBN-10
1909808253
ISBN-13
9781909808256
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208704150
Product Key Features
Book Title
Alien Sky : The Story of One Man's Remarkable Adventure in Bomber Command During the Second World War
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Military / Aviation, Military
Publication Year
2015
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.3in
Item Weight
18.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
D786
Copyright Date
2015
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2015-509615
Dewey Decimal
940.544941092
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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