{"product_id":"in-the-shadows-of-war-thomas-childers-9780805057539","title":"In the Shadows of War: An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA masterful example of nonfiction brought to life* --the harrowing account of an aviator's World War II journey and the two people who helped him along the way\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In a small village in France during the fateful summer of 1944, three disparate lives converged in an unlikely secret alliance. Just after D-Day, Colette Florin hid downed American bomber pilot Roy Allen in her rooms above the tiny girls' school where she taught. While concealing him, she was drawn deeper into the clandestine world of the regional underground. There she met the local leader of the Resistance: Pierre Mulsant, a young Frenchman trained by the British secret service who had parachuted into France in the spring of 1944. \u003cbr\u003eDrawn from extensive interviews, letters, and archival documents in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, \u003ci\u003e In the Shadows of War\u003c\/i\u003e follows the fateful twists and turns of Allen's journey from rural France to Paris, capture by the Gestapo, imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp and then a POW camp, and eventual liberation. It is an unforgettable, profoundly moving human drama of love and courage and sacrifice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e*T\u003ci\u003ehe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Childers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0805057536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780805057539\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Henry Holt \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 443\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.18h x 5.58w x 1.16d","brand":"Thomas Childers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988272644351,"sku":"9780805057539","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7a08864-74ba-4f76-a786-88526719dd7c.jpg?v=1683293595","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-the-shadows-of-war-thomas-childers-9780805057539","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}