The Luftwaffe Letters

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Arcadia Books, 2006 - Fiction - 642 pages
Seamlessly blending scenes of domestic bliss, political intrigue, and the fortunes of war, this novel captures the thrills and perils of the great aerial battles over Europe and North Africa in World War II. As a young, dashing, aristocratic fighter-pilot in Hitler's Luftwaffe, Peter von Vorzik's life story is told through journal entries and letters of correspondence with his family in this wartime epic. Through the eyes of a German flyboy, this touching and memorable novel couples a cornucopia of airplane lore with the heroism and heartbreak of war.

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Edward Thorpe was dance critic of the Evening Standard and has written extensively elsewhere, for The Guardian, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. He has published five books on danceas well as a successful novel, The Night I Caught the Santa Fe Cheif, which is currently being developed as a film.

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