An Astonishing tale of patriotism, courage, and sacrifice.
Midnight Flyboys
The American Bomber Crews and Allied Secret Agents
Who Aided the French Resistance in World War II
“Midnight Flyboys is absorbing and filled with details I hadn't before encountered about the partnership between American airmen, Allied spies, and the French resistance. This story of an important moment in world history has much resonance for the time we are living in.”
—Michael Beschloss, New York Times bestselling author of Presidents of War and The Conquerors
About Bruce
Bruce Henderson is the author of more than twenty nonfiction books, including a #1 New York Times bestseller. He is the author of Sons and Soldiers, a NYT bestseller about "The Ritchie Boys" being developed for a feature film. He won the 2023 Gilder Lehrman Military History Prize in recognition of the best English language book published in the field of American military history for Bridge to the Sun. His books have been translated in more than two dozen countries. His latest book is Midnight Flyboys: The American Bombers Crews and Allied Secret Agents Who Aided the French Resistance in World War II, which he dedicated to "the uncle I never knew, 1st Lt. Robert Silva, and all the other flyboys who did not come back."
About Midnight Flyboys
The untold history of a top-secret operation in the run-up to D-Day in which American flyers and Allied spies carried out some of the most daring cloak-and-dagger operations of World War II. Based on exclusive research and interviews, the definitive story of these heroic flyers—and of the brave secret agents and resistance leaders they aided—can now be told. Written in Bruce Henderson’s “spellbinding prose" (USA Today), Midnight Flyboys is an astonishing tale of patriotism, courage, and sacrifice.
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