The Vaulted Sky

von P. Moffa R. P. Moffa

544 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The "flying business" seizes Patrick Montalto at an early age. A young, Italian-American from New York, his earliest memories of a fragile biplane avoiding a disastrous end on a summer's day in the country provide the single-minded impetus to an improbable journey. It starts when his father and a friend chip in for a harmless airplane ride from a small grass airstrip in the Westchester hills. It is a coming of age journey as Patrick learns to fly on that field during a Depression that doesn't allow for many dreams. As the Second World War engulfs Europe, it takes Patrick to a barely clandestine British operation to recruit American flyers, where he has to choose between one dream of the sky and another of a college education.

• Reihe: iUniverse
• ISBN: 9781440152535
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24.09.2009
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Xlibris