Lightning Down, Tom Clavin
Lightning Down, Tom Clavin
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Lightning Down
A World War II Story of Survival

Author: Tom Clavin

Narrator: George Newbern

Unabridged: 8 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/02/2021


Synopsis

An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive.

On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story.

Moser was just twenty-two years old, a farm boy from Washington State who fell in love with flying. During the War he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effective weapons the Army Air Corps had against the powerful German Luftwaffe. But on that hot August morning he had to bail out of his damaged, burning plane. Captured immediately, Moser’s journey into hell began.

Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured the most horrific conditions during their imprisonment... until the day the orders were issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan would save them.

The page-turning momentum of Lightning Down is like that of a thriller, but the stories of imprisoned and brutalized airmen are true and told in unforgettable detail, led by the distinctly American voice of Joe Moser, who prays every day to be reunited with his family.

Lightning Down is a can’t-put-it-down inspiring saga of brave men confronting great evil and great odds against survival.

A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press.

About Tom Clavin

TOM CLAVIN is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and has worked as a newspaper editor, magazine writer, TV and radio commentator, and a reporter for The New York Times. He has received awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, and National Newspaper Association. His books include the bestselling Frontier Lawmen trilogy—Wild Bill, Dodge City, and Tombstone—and Blood and Treasure, The Last Hill, and Throne of Grace with Bob Drury. He lives in Sag Harbor, NY.


Reviews

Lightning Down by Tom Clavin was the tue story of a young farm boy, Joe Moser, who always dreamed of becoming a pilot. Joe grew up on a farm in the state of Washington. He finally got to fulfill his wish of becoming a pilot when the United States entered World War II. After a slow beginning that inc......more

This was a WW2 history based on the experience of a P-38 Lightning fighter pilot. The author told much of pilot Joe Moser’s personal story and added bits of history surrounding the people and places he encountered during his service. The story was interesting but it fell a little flat for me. I didn’......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

Lightning Down by Tom Clavin is a stunning account of a US fighter pilot that fought in WWII, Joe Moser, and the harrowing events that he went through, and survived, that in my mind makes him a true hero. I will save the narrative for the reader to be able to experience, however I will just say am aw......more