PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud are coauthors of The Murrow Boys, a biography of the correspondents whom Edward R. Murrow hired before and during World War II to create CBS News. Olson is the author of Freedom s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. Cloud, a former Washington bureau chief for Time, was also a national political correspondent, White House correspondent, Saigon bureau chief, and Moscow correspondent for Time. Olson was a Moscow correspondent for the Associated Press and White House correspondent for the Baltimore Sun. She and Cloud are married and live in Washington, D.C. From the Hardcover edition.
Exciting. . . . A tale of heroism, camaraderie and glory. The authors vividly re-create the airmen's daily bouts with death and nights of partying, their lost lives and loves. -- The Washington Post Book World<br><br> An impassioned, riveting account of Poland's betrayal by Britain and the United States, which quickly forgot the Poles' heroism in their rush to appease the Soviet Union. -- Newsweek <br><br> Exciting and compelling, a fine story too rarely told, a tribute to the Polish fighting spirit, and a well-written war history about a distant but very good neighbor. --Alan Furst
