They Call Him Marvin

Autor*innen

• Roger Stark

Parameter

• Geschichte
• Historische Romane
• Sachliteratur
• Weltgeschichte
• Zweiter Weltkrieg

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They Called Him Marvin is a true life story of Lt Dean Sherman and his wife Connie, a young married couple trying to make a family in the midst of WW2. Development of the B-29 is central to the story as Dean becomes a B-29 Airplane Commander. He leaves his pregnant wife behind as he is deployed first to India and then the Mariana Islands. The book contains 67 letters of their correspondence. A Japanese family is introduced to portray the Japanese side of the war. Dean is shot down May 14 1945 and after a mock trial he is beheaded as a war criminal.

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Einband: Paperback