375th Personnel Recovery Detachment, Balkans : A Novel of Wartime
(2024)

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : Austin Macauley Publishers, 2024
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ISBN/ISSN
9781649795045 MWT17294120, 1649795041 17294120
LANGUAGE
English
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In 1944, American second lieutenant John Gorham Westfall receives a daring mission: under the cover identity '375th Personnel Recovery Detachment, Balkans,' he is to parachute into Yugoslavia and extract shot-down American pilots. His orders are stark: 'This is a war of no morality… Do what it takes. Get our boys out. Methods are immaterial. Morals schmorals.' Soon, Westfall faces a harrowing conflict between his mission and his ethics. High winds force him to land amidst the communist-led Partisans instead of his intended allies. Now, navigating through a landscape ravaged by constant German attacks, he must tread carefully, avoiding entanglement in the brutal Yugoslav civil war. Amid the chaos, Westfall is instructed to avoid romantic entanglements. But in a rain-soaked forest, while fleeing from German forces, he encounters the tall, captivating 'Comrade Jadranka,' a fellow 23-year-old and translator for the Partisan high command. As danger looms and loyalties are tested, Westfall's resolve is pushed to its limits in a mission where survival and morality are constantly at odds

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