A Stranger in the Mirror
Author | : Helena P. Schrader PhD |
Publisher | : Cross Seas Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2021-09-23 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781735313979 |
ISBN-13 | : 1735313971 |
Rating | : 4/5 (971 Downloads) |
Download or read book A Stranger in the Mirror written by Helena P. Schrader PhD and published by Cross Seas Press. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Goldman, a German Jew with Canadian citizenship, is shot down in flames while flying for the RAF in September 1940. His face is burned beyond recognition, and he is told he will never fly again. While the legendary plastic surgeon Dr. McIndoe reconstructs a face and hands one painful operation at a time, the 22-year-old former fighter pilot must come to terms with the stranger in the mirror and decide who he really is. Helena P. Schrader is an established aviation author and expert on the Second World War. She earned a PhD in History (cum Laude) from the University of Hamburg with a ground-breaking dissertation on a leading member of the German Resistance to Hitler. Her non-fiction publications include "Sisters in Arms: The Women who Flew in WWII," "The Blockade Breakers: The Berlin Airlift," and "Codename Valkyrie: General Friederich Olbricht and the Plot against Hitler." In addition, Helena has published nineteen historical novels and won numerous literary awards. Her novel on the Battle of Britain, "Where Eagles Never Flew," won the Hemingway Award for 20th Century Wartime Fiction and a Maincrest Media Award for Historical Fiction. RAF Battle of Britain ace Wing Commander Bob Doe called it "the best book" he had ever seen about the Battle. He went on to say: "Refreshingly, it got it smack-on the way it was for us fighter pilots."