The Long Flight Home - a heart-breaking and uplifting World War 2 love story

Zusatztext The Long Flight Home is a charming historical novel by Alan Hlad. With clear! vivid prose he recalls the mostly-forgotten! but intriguing RAF experiment! and sensitively explores the growing relationship between Ollie and Susan Informationen zum Autor Alan Hlad, writing as A.L. Hlad, is a corporate executive turned writer who exhibits meticulous and fascinating research in his historical fiction. Alan is a seasoned conference speaker, and a member of the Historical Novel Society, Literary Cleveland, and the Akron Writers' Group. A runner and hiker, Alan lives in Ohio with his wife and children, along with their Golden Retrievers and the world's most persistent cat. Zusammenfassung A heart-breaking and moving story of love and sacrifice, set against the backdrop of the Blitz. Inspired by true events, and perfect for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society and Dear Mrs Bird *** Is love strong enough to survive a war? September 1940. As enemy fighter planes blacken the sky, Susan Shepherd finds comfort at her home in Epping Forest, where she and her grandfather raise homing pigeons. Of all Susan's birds, it's Duchess who is the most extraordinary, and the two share a special bond. Thousands of miles away, Ollie Evans, a young American pilot decides to travel to Britain to join the Royal Air Force. But Ollie doesn't expect his quest to bring him instead to the National Pigeon Service - a covert new operation involving homing pigeons - and to Susan. The National Pigeon Service has a dangerous mission to air-drop hundreds of pigeons into German-occupied France. Despite their growing friendship Ollie and Susan must soon be parted - but will Duchess's devotion and sense of duty prove to be an unexpected lifeline between them? Based on true events, The Long Flight Home is an uplifting and timeless wartime novel, that reminds us how, in times of hardship, hope is never truly lost. ...

Product details

• Authors: A L Hlad, A.L. Hlad
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781529311440
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-1144-0
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 234 mm x 37 mm
• Subjects: Romance, FICTION / War & Military, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, France, NATURE / Animals / General, NATURE / Animals / Birds, Second World War fiction, True war & combat stories, HISTORY / Military / World War II, 20th Century, PETS / Birds, HISTORY / Europe / France, FICTION / Animals, FICTION / Romance / Military, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, War & combat fiction, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, Animals & society, Farm & working animals, Domestic animals & pets, c 1940 to c 1949, Animals and society, True war and combat stories, c 1990 to c 2000, c 1990 to c 1999, Farm and working animals: general interest, Birds, Including Cage Birds, As Pets, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)