Thomas Childers, Author . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $26 (340p) ISBN 978-0-618-77368-8
Conventional impressions of WWII's aftermath—wild celebration, triumphal return, ebullient prosperity—hide a grimmer reality, according to this somber history of postwar discontents. University of Pennsylvania historian Childers (In
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Thomas Childers, Author . Holt $27.50 (464p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5752-2
The paths of three unlikely comrades—a schoolteacher in a rural French town, a downed bomber pilot from Philadelphia, a British-trained French bourgeois saboteur—meet and merge between November 1943 and May 1945. Local teacher Colette...
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Thomas Childers, Author Addison Wesley Publishing Company $23 (276p) ISBN 978-0-201-48310-9
Childers, a history professor at the University of Pennsylvania, recounts the haunting story of one 12-man U.S. bomber crew during WWII. On a bombing run over Regensburg, on the eve of the German surrender, their B-24 Liberator was downed so swiftly
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