Flights From Fassberg - How a German Town Built for War Became a Beacon of Peace

A brilliant merging of personal experience and world-changing, historical significance in a hamlet that held the line against Russia

About the author

Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, Colonel, US Air Force (Ret.), was born in Germany in 1935 and immigrated to the United States in 1951 at age sixteen with an eighth-grade education and no English-language skills. Upon graduation from the University of Colorado, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the US Air Force, then flew over one hundred strategic reconnaissance missions against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. His first book German Boy: A Refugee's Story garnered favorable reviews from the New York Times and numerous other outlets. He is author of eight books published by University Press of Mississippi.

Summary

Both personal revelation and world history, replete with tales from pilots, mechanics, and all those whose lives intersected there, Flights from Fassberg provides context to the Berlin Airlift and its strategic impact, the development of NATO, and the establishment of the West German nation.

Product details

• Authors: Wolfgang W E Samuel, Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
• Publisher: University of mississippi pres
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9781496833648
• ISBN: 978-1-4968-3364-8
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Willie Morris Books in Memoir; Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous