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Richard Pape

    Richard Pape fue un autor británico y veterano de guerra cuya producción literaria está profundamente arraigada en sus extraordinarias experiencias personales. Sus escritos se basan en un espíritu indomable y audaces escapes durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. La prosa de Pape sobresale en su vívida representación de aventuras y sus profundas reflexiones sobre el coraje y la resiliencia humana frente a la adversidad. Sus obras ofrecen a los lectores una visión cautivadora de una vida notable forjada a través de pruebas increíbles.

    Boldness Be My Friend
    Fortune is my enemy
    • Boldness Be My Friend

      • 352 páginas
      • 13 horas de lectura

      Richard Pape, navigator of an R.A.F. Stirling bomber goes on a special mission to destroy Goering's residence which is used as operational headquarters for the air defence of Berlin. His aircraft, after the operation has been successfully accomplished, is shot down. Wounded, he is hunted across Holland, joins the Dutch underground and is captured in Leyden waiting to be taken off by a British submarine.The description of the Berlin raid, the last moments of the aircraft and the pursuit across Holland are among the best dramatic passages to come out of the war. But this is only the beginning of the most fantastic tale, which, interspersed with intrigue and violence, with setbacks and recapture, takes Pape across the breadth of German-occupied Europe; to Poland and Czechoslovakia; to Austria and Hungary and almost to the Yugoslav partisans.

      Boldness Be My Friend2007