Of Air and Men

<h3 class=ql-align-center>On November 8 1935 the greatest aircraft </h3><h3 class=ql-align-center>of its time vanished into the night - and with it </h3><h3 class=ql-align-center>two men a legend and the truth. </h3><p>Charles Kingsford Smith one of the most celebrated international figures of his age and his young protégé and co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge were never seen again. What remained was silence heartbreak and a mystery that would ripple across generations.</p><p>Decades later whilst on expedition in the remote waters off Myanmar an intrepid explorer uncovers the wreck of the Lady Southern Cross. That discovery ignites a twenty-year journey to piece together what really happened to strip away the myths that clouded Charles's memory and to bring long-awaited closure to the families who endured in their absence.</p><p>OF AIR AND MEN is a true story epically told through the intimacy of historical fiction - where ambition and hardship courage and vulnerability love and loss intertwine. It is also the story of the women who bore the weight of that silence - and of a son just shy of his third birthday when his father vanished and who for ninety years knew him only through the history books. </p><p>Until now . . . </p><p>Set against the glamour and turbulence of the 1930s and echoing into the lives still marked by that night this is both a mystery unraveled and a legacy reclaimed.</p><p>A haunting human story - of those who flew those who waited and those who against all odds refused to let the truth be lost to time.</p>