In the spring of 1950, an ex-Flying Tiger pilot came home from China to die. After flying for General Chennault against the Japanese, Howie Hill flew for Chiang Kai-shek s Nationalist Chinese air force against Mao s Communist air force. In 1949, the Nationalists lost. Captain Hill s family his Chinese wife, son and daughter, and in-laws went missing and were presumed dead, killed by the victorious Communist armies. In his P-40 fighter, Captain Hill escaped to Taiwan, but apparently none of his family or relatives had made it to the coast and the escape-boats. Captain Hill, in despair, went home to Mackenzie, Texas, to die. Howie tried to commit suicide by crashing his motorcycle while drunk. He was surprised to wake up in a hospital emergency room. That s where he met Nadya Benda, the nurse tending to him in his coma. When he awoke, she became his angel. A decade earlier, Nadya had lost her own family in Poland, at the hands of the invading German army. So she understood Howie s despair. Would Howie listen to Nadya and allow his angel to help him? Would falling in love with her save him? Would her love be enough for the restoration of a crashed Flying Tiger? Read this story to find out how Howie was saved by the love of a remarkable woman.
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About the Author:
A retired history teacher and an attorney in Orange County, California, Larry Nicholl was born in 1941 in Amarillo, Texas. He grew up in the 1940s and 1950s in the Texas Panhandle. He received his undergraduate degree from Texas Tech University and his doctorate from the University of Southern California. He has lived in Southern California since 1971 and resides with his wife in Irvine. The series, Once Upon a Time in the Texas Panhandle, is based on the author s experiences in that part of West Texas. Larry Nicholl has been writing his series, Once Upon a Time in the Texas Panhandle, since 2012. The books do not need to be read in any particular order think of the series as a mosaic. Each story is a different piece of the picture and they are all based in and around the Texas Panhandle during the 1950s and 1960s. Read the books in any order you would like each one will appeal to a different emotion: love, trust, fear, coming of age, giving birth and dying.
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- PublisherRedwood Publishing, LLC
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1947341456
- ISBN 13 9781947341456
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages504