A Question of Honor
is the gripping story of Polish fighter pilots who helped save
England during World War II. Written by the authors of the
acclaimed 1996 book The Murrow Boys, which Garrison Keillor
described as "a history [of the World War II era] so vivid and
clear you get 50 years younger by reading it," A Question of
Honor is similarly filled with adventure and heroism. In
addition, it tells how the Poles, despite their crucial
contributions to the Allied war effort, were finally betrayed by
the "Big Three" -- Joseph Stalin, FDR and Winston Churchill.
Focusing on five extraordinary
pilots who flew in the famed Kosciuszko Squadron, the authors
describe the pilots' escape from their homeland after Poland was
defeated by Germany in 1939. Along with thousands of other Polish
military personnel, the pilots -- determined to continue the fight
-- went first to France, then to Britain. Soon their brilliant
accomplishments in the air made them "the glamour boys of
England."
Thanks to the authors' extensive
research and novelistic story-telling, the men and battles of the
Kosciuszko Squadron -- their courage, triumph and defeats -- are
brought vividly to life in A Question of Honor. |
