Darrell Egbert

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Escape of Edward St. Ives (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

The biggest undercover operation of the War is in the hands of a single pilot. When Edward St. Ives flew his B-17 into enemy territory, he knew full well he would be captured and tortured for the information he had. It was top secret. But what he didn't know was that Allied Command had a different plan. Would he be able to risk his life to preserve a lie? That was just the beginning of his story and an escape that would stretch out over a lifetime. A tour de force from a gifted writer.The story is based on the real life experience of a WW2, Air Force bomber pilot. Years later the middle age pilot realizes that he is trapped again, but this time in an abusive, dysfunctional family. He is nothing more to them than an indentured servant. From his hopelessness comes yet another brilliant plan of escape and the adventure begins again. A story that will keep you on the edge of your seat. The author knew most of the main characters, and was aware of the dark secret of the hero, and of his personal problems that led to his desperate actions.

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Autor

Darrell Egbert was born in Layton, Utah, in 1925. He learned to read and write in a three-room schoolhouse, located in a mining town in the Oquirrah Mountains of Utah. He studied more serious writing while at the Universities of Nevada and Utah, and the art of "readable writing" while at the Air University in Montgomery, Alabama.
Like most young boys, he built model airplanes and dreamed of becoming a military pilot. His dream became reality, when, at the age of seventeen, he was accepted into the Army Air Corps. Soon after his eighteenth birthday, he was called to active duty where he spent the next two years of the War as an Aviation Cadet. He graduated from twin-engine school as a Flight Officer and first pilot of a medium bomber just as the atom bomb ended the War.
Upon graduating from the University of Utah, he applied for active duty, which coincided with America's entry into the Korean War. He spent most of his career until retirement in 1969 in staff positions involving the maintenance of bombers and missiles, both air to ground and inter-continental. His overseas assignments included such diverse places as French Morocco and Thule, Greenland. At Thule, he took a ground part in special photoreconnaissance missions, which helped bring about the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
He began writing for publication when his first historical novel came to the attention of Barnes and Nobel. The Ravensbruck Legacy is his second in print.
Shortly after leaving the 44th Bomb Wing he met and married Miss Savannah of the Miss Georgia Beauty Pageant. Lieutenant Colonel Egbert and Betty, his bride of 56 years, are retired and live with their dog in Washington, Utah. As he is fond of saying, "I never had it so good".... Biography by Publishers Place, Logan, Utah.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Distributed via Smashwords
• Seitenzahl: 301
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781452441504
• Artikelnr.: 45451000