Steven Burgauer

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Flights for Freedom (eBook, ePUB)

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The Great War saw armed combat take to the skies in a large way. Although the U.S. Army Air Service did not come into existence until 1918, brave American flyers were attached to aero-squadrons under command of the British RAF much earlier than that. This is the story of one of those daring flyers - "Petrol" Petronas - as he learns to master the undisciplined two-winged fighter called a Sopwith Camel. Out-gunned by the enemy in a bruising air battle, Petrol is shot down over France, after which he is shuttled by women of the Resistance from safehouse to safehouse until he crosses the border to freedom in the Netherlands. Meanwhile, on the mean streets of London, a gang of thieves maneuver to heist thousands of Lewis machine guns manufactured for the Russians but confiscated and now locked away in a lightly guarded Manchester warehouse. On the trench battlefields of France, secure communications between frontline troops and artillery and command to their rear are of vital importance. As human runners often succumb to battlefield injury or death, messages are often delivered by carrier pigeon. These birds' brave flights for freedom help turn the tide of war in favor of the Allies. Elsewhere on the frontlines, cotton sacks filled with American flour become a vital tool of war for the starving peoples of Belgium, many of whom have been imprisoned in slave labor camps. The landscape known as Flanders Fields become choked with the dead and dying. Refugees of all ages seek shelter where they can find it, and some of the youngest land in the able hands of a kindly padre, Father Montagne, and the orphanage he oversees in Douai, France. From the rooftop of his abbey, Father Montagne trains the pigeons who will soon be message-carriers for Signal Corps stationed nearby. Petrol must help spirit secret blueprints for an advanced gunsight out of Holland to Great Britain in a flour sack, where they will come into production just in time for the Allies to gain superiority in the air, prevent a Dresden-like firebombing of London, and win the war.

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Steven Burgauer, Biography

Avid hiker, Eagle Scout, and founder of a mutual fund, Steven Burgauer resides in Florida. A graduate of Illinois State University and the New York Institute of Finance, Steve writes science fiction and historic fiction.

Burgauer's The Road to War: Duty & Drill, Courage & Capture is based on the journals of an American WWII infantryman who landed at Normandy, was wounded and taken prisoner by the Nazis.

A member of the Society of Midland Authors, Steven is included in The Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Volume 2: Dimensions of the Midwestern Literary Imagination.

Some of his SF titles include The Grandfather Paradox, The Railguns of Luna, The Fornax Drive, and SKULLCAP. Other books of his include The Night of the Eleventh Sun, a Neanderthal's first encounter with man, and The Wealth Builder's Guide: An Investment Primer. Steven contributed to the zany, serial mystery, Naked Came the Farmer, headlined by Philip Jose Farmer.

His work has been reviewed in many places, including LOCUS, SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE, the PEORIA JOURNAL STAR, the EUREKA LITERARY MAGAZINE, and PROMETHEUS, the journal of the Libertarian Futurist Society.

A review of The Railguns of Luna from the prestigious SCIENCE FICTION CHRONICLE (June 2001):

Steven Burgauer writes old style science fiction in which heroes and villains are easily identified, the action is fast and furious, and the plot twists and turns uncontrollably. His newest is the story of a crack team of military specialists who discover that the brilliant but warped Cassandra Mubarak is planning to use advanced scientific devices to seize control of the world. To stop her, they must infiltrate her heavily guarded headquarters and rescue the fair maiden in distress. This is action adventure written straightforwardly and not meant to be heavily literary or provide pithy commentary on the state of humanity.
Don D'Ammassa

When Steven lived in Illinois, the State of Illinois Library included him in a select group of authors invited to the state's Authors' Day. He has often been a speaker and panel member at public library events and science-fiction conventions all across the country.

His website is: http://sites.google.com/site/stevenburgauer
http://midlandauthors.com/burgauer.html

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Steven Burgauer
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781005439712
• Artikelnr.: 69901038