This NEW book takes a comprehensive look at the air war over Europe in all of its complexity. Combining firsthand experience with expert analysis in a clear, concise, yet non technical manner, the reader is provided an in depth look at the air war over Europe during the climactic years of World War II . Against this wealth of information as a backdrop, including new material having little or no coverage elsewhere, the unaltered mission-by-mission diary of Lt. Richard Ayesh, a bombardier on a B-17 Flying Fortress in the legendary "Bloody Hundredth" Bomb Group, provides an unvarnished account of first hand combat action in dozens of riveting missions through the deadly flak-filled, Luftwaffe-infested skies of an increasingly cornered, desperate Nazi regime. Ayesh went on to receive the Distinguished Flying Cross, Croix de Guerre and the Air Medal with Four Oak Leaf Clusters, amongst others.
 
The author minces no words in conveying the reality of what it was like for a young Lieutenant to be thrust from depression-era Kansas, which was rapidly becoming the air capital of the nation, to his arrival in England as a Lieutenant in a bomber crew assigned to assault the Third Reich, and thence over Germany where unbelievable episodes of air combat earmarked by heroism and tragedy ultimately claimed the lives of 26, 000 airmen.
 
The result is one of the most frank and exciting works on the air war over Europe to date.
 
 
About the author
EDWARD M. SION, Ph. D. is currently a Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Villanova University, and has held visiting positions at Arizona State, the University of Toulouse and the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute.
He authored or co-authored 185 peer reviewed publications and currently resides with his wife, son and daughter in Radnor, PA
 

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