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Richard Pape

    Richard Pape bol britský autor a vojnový veterán, ktorého literárne dielo čerpá z jeho mimoriadnych osobných skúseností. Svoje spisy stavia na nezlomnom duchu a nebezpečných útekoch počas druhej svetovej vojny. Papeho písanie vyniká živým vylíčením dobrodružstiev a hlbokým zamyslením nad odvahou a ľudskou odolnosťou tvárou v tvár nepriazni osudu. Jeho diela ponúkajú čitateľom pútavý vhľad do výnimočného života formovaného neuveriteľnými skúškami.

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

      • 352 stránok
      • 13 hodin čítania

      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.

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