Bøger af Keith Warren Lloyd

The list of American war correspondents who covered the European Theater of Operations during the Second World War is a veritable Who's Who of American literary and journalistic greats of the Twentieth Century- The War Correspondents tells the stories of these incredibly brave men and women.

It is the Summer of 1918...The horrific First World War has been raging in Europe for nearly four years. The United States has joined the Allied cause and the pursuit pilots of America's new Army Air Service find themselves pitted against a determined and battle-hardened enemy. The flamboyant flying ace Vincent Durand, veteran of the French Foreign Legion and the Lafayette Escadrille, is tasked with leading a new squadron of young Americans into combat. One of them is Marcus Keating, an idealistic and capable pilot fresh from the flying club of Princeton University. They will both cross paths with the sassy Emily Daniels, an expatriate writer and activist living and working in the decadent Montparnasse district of Paris. Mortal danger, cruel deception, furious passion and tragic loss lie ahead...in the days When Heaven Was Falling.

Above and Beyond is the incredible true story of Frank Luke Jr., the first aviator to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1897, Luke was an adventurous young man who was an avid hunter and outdoorsman. When America entered the First World War in 1917, Luke became a fighter pilot in the newly-formed U.S. Army Air Service and was soon serving with a combat squadron in France. Seen as a "high-strung, excitable boy," scorned by his squadron mates and frequently at odds with his commanders, "Above and Beyond" tells the story of how Luke soon became one of the most revered fighter aces on the Western Front. Exhibiting great audacity and skill in combat, he quickly racked up an impressive number of air-to-air victories, many of them against heavily-defended observation balloons which few pilots dared to attack. "Above and Beyond" chronicles Luke's most daring mission of all on September 29, 1918, which cost him his life, and for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

Though haunted by memories of the Great War and the unexpected loss of his wife and child, Shelby McKeever has managed to carve out a peaceful existence on a faraway Caribbean island. Together with his best friend Chuck, he runs a small hotel and spends his days fishing and sailing in a sun-drenched tropical paradise. When Shelby encounters Jeannine, a beautiful French scientist on sabbatical in the islands, his tranquil life will be forever changed. And with danger looming on the horizon, Shelby must make some difficult decisions about the direction his life will take.

"The US Navy's Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats were used in every theater of WWII, but they are most famous for their daring exploits in the South Pacific, where they were the US Navy's first line of defense against the "Tokyo Express," the nightly attacks of Japanese destroyers against American forces on Guadalcanal. Dark Nights, Deadly Waters tells the story of the first PT boats deployed to the fetid and malarial island of Tulagi, in the desperate early days of America's "island hopping" campaign across the Pacific"--