375th Personnel Recovery Detachment, Balkans - Crisp, William
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In 1944, American second lieutenant John Gorham Westfall receives a daring mission: under the cover identity '375th Personnel Recovery Detachment, Balkans,' he is to parachute into Yugoslavia and extract shot-down American pilots. His orders are stark: 'This is a war of no morality... Do what it takes. Get our boys out. Methods are immaterial. Morals schmorals.' Soon, Westfall faces a harrowing conflict between his mission and his ethics. High winds force him to land amidst the communist-led Partisans instead of his intended allies. Now, navigating through a landscape ravaged by constant…mehr

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In 1944, American second lieutenant John Gorham Westfall receives a daring mission: under the cover identity '375th Personnel Recovery Detachment, Balkans,' he is to parachute into Yugoslavia and extract shot-down American pilots. His orders are stark: 'This is a war of no morality... Do what it takes. Get our boys out. Methods are immaterial. Morals schmorals.' Soon, Westfall faces a harrowing conflict between his mission and his ethics. High winds force him to land amidst the communist-led Partisans instead of his intended allies. Now, navigating through a landscape ravaged by constant German attacks, he must tread carefully, avoiding entanglement in the brutal Yugoslav civil war. Amid the chaos, Westfall is instructed to avoid romantic entanglements. But in a rain-soaked forest, while fleeing from German forces, he encounters the tall, captivating 'Comrade Jadranka,' a fellow 23-year-old and translator for the Partisan high command. As danger looms and loyalties are tested, Westfall's resolve is pushed to its limits in a mission where survival and morality are constantly at odds.
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A Virginian, graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, William Crisp served as a lieutenant, rifle platoon leader, 1st Battalion (Airborne) 8th Cavalry Regiment, First Cavalry Division (Airmobile) during the Vietnam conflict. Subsequently, as a US Foreign Service Officer, he was posted to Zagreb, Croatia, then Yugoslavia. He then worked for the next twenty-five years as an East European business specialist for the Economist Intelligence Unit based in Vienna. Five of his 'thriller' novels and three nonfiction books, including two cookbooks and his Air Assault Sharing Military Experience, have been published. With his wife and visiting daughter, he resides in the town of Staunton in the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia.