To Kingdom Come

The breathtaking never-before-told true story of a historic air- force bombing mission in 1943 Germany. . On September 6 1943 three hundred and thirty-eight B-17 Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force took off from England bound for Stuttgart Germany to bomb Nazi weapons factories. . Dense clouds obscured the targets and one commander's critical decision to circle three times over the city-and its deadly flak-would prove disastrous. Forty-five planes went down that day and hundreds of men were lost or missing. . Focusing on first-person accounts of six of the B-17 airmen award- winning author Robert Mrazek vividly re-creates the fierce air battle- and reveals the astonishing valor of the airmen who survived being shot down and the tragic fate of those who did not.