Publisher's Synopsis
Nicholas Alkemade, a British bomber gunner, survives a 6,000 meter fall. Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian stationed in Hungary, saves 5,200 Jews from deportation. American aviator Charlie Brown is spared by a German fighter pilot. Jacques Sztark suffers the horrors of the Nazi camps and saves German prisoners from death. Yves La Prairie plays an important role in the Resistance, escapes through the Pyrenees and ends the war in the navy. Amedeo Guillet, an Italian officer, becomes a hero in East Africa. Adolf Galland remains an atypical airman of the Luftwaffe. The British pilots Robert Tuck and Douglas Bader multiply the exploits in the sky. The British lead commando raids in Gironde and Norway. Erich Hartmann becomes the ace of aces. Jean-Baptiste Piron and his Belgian soldiers are the great forgotten of the Liberation. Japanese paratroopers cut the Allies to pieces. Charles Wingate and his soldiers shine in the Burmese jungle. Matome Ugaki is the last Japanese suicide bomber to die in action.
