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“…the author’s depiction of flying those flak-filled skies above Germany during the Battle of the Bulge is clarity itself. His writing is simple and direct, and readers will empathize as desperate fear is coped with and courage summoned from heaven knows where. These were 20-somethings, barely out of boyhood, and Smith makes their stories compellingly real—fitting, since the 416th was an actual bomb group. The author’s characters, his father among them, are all drawn from life. Their conversations here are, of course, fictionalized, but readers will sense that very little else is.

Vivid, suspenseful battle scenes are this work’s strongest moments.”

                                                                        Kirkus Discoveries