{"product_id":"diary-of-a-bomber-pilot-a-b-24-pilot-and-his-bride","title":"Diary of a  Bomber Pilot A B-24 PILOT AND HIS BRIDE","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color: font-weight:\u003eHe wrote the diary for his bride; in case he never came home.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color:\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eAt nineteen, James Neal Workman left South Carolina and Clemson College to climb into the cockpit of a B-24 Liberator over war-torn Europe. By twenty-one, he had flown his full combat tour with the Army Air Corps — each mission carrying ten lives and the weight of history itself.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color: font-style: italic\u003eDiary of a Bomber Pilot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color:\u003e is his unvarnished, day-by-day record of those years: the freezing altitudes, the thunder of engines, flak bursting through the fuselage, the ever-present shadow of death — and the quiet moments of courage that never made it into censored letters home.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color: font-weight:\u003e'Just for Helen, in case something happens to me… This book, my diary, is to you. I love you so much darling.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color:\u003e — February 18, 1944\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eBut this is more than a war story. It is a love story. While Jim flew lead crew over Germany, his seventeen-year-old bride Helen followed him across America from training base to training base — and then waited, and prayed, an ocean away. His entries reveal a young man torn from the innocence of home, aching for his wife, and anchored by a deep, unshakeable faith in God amid the chaos of strategic bombing.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eGently framed by their daughter, Lou, who spent treasured hours with her parents recovering their memories, this book preserves:\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color: font-weight:\u003eAuthentic 1944 combat diary entries\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color:\u003e — written the day they happened, never intended for publication\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color: font-weight:\u003eThe making of a bomber pilot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color:\u003e — Army Air Corps flight training from cadet to lead crew\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color: font-weight:\u003eRare historical perspective\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color:\u003e — the Norden bombsight, electric flight suits, formation flying, and the birth of strategic air power\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color: font-weight:\u003eA wartime romance\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color:\u003e — the courtship, wedding, and letters of Jim and Helen\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e• \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color: font-weight:\u003eA living faith\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color:\u003e — the prayers and scripture that steadied one man when nothing else could\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color: font-weight:\u003e'Flak hit us — and I mean hit us. Counted 20 holes… The Lord saved us. Why we weren't killed only He can say.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color:\u003e — March 3, 1944\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003eFor readers of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color: font-style: italic\u003eMasters of the Air\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color:\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color: font-style: italic\u003eUnbroken\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color:\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color: font-style: italic\u003eThe Wild Blue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color:\u003e, this is a rare first-person window into the air war over Europe — and into what it meant for one young man to fight, to believe, and to hold on to home.\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14px; color: #0f1111; font-family: \" amazon ember arial sans-serif background-color: font-weight:\u003eNine months after he stepped off the train, their daughter was born. This is their legacy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lou W. Souders","offers":[{"title":"Case Bound - PPC","offer_id":67979336024368,"sku":"9798951660008","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0262\/2357\/5085\/files\/9798951660008.jpg?v=1791518911","url":"https:\/\/www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk\/products\/diary-of-a-bomber-pilot-a-b-24-pilot-and-his-bride","provider":"The Great British Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}