Pat O'Brien (4)

The Amazon customer review by Bobbi's Books motivated me to try this old WWI escape memoir. It's about an American flying ace shot down over German lines who is taken prisoner and escapes on foot across hundreds of miles. It starts off slow and builds to the end with many close calls. The episode in a Belgian town with "Heidegger" is memorable as he hides in plain sight from German soldiers. Although with a propagandist slant (you can tell by the title) it's a true account and fun to step back in time, I enjoyed it. It was one of the best-selling war books in 1918, earning 6th spot on Publisher Weekly's best-seller list, but largely forgotten today. All the more fun for discovering. The LibriVox recording by David Wales is professional quality, or the original book at Internet Archive.… (mer)