{"product_id":"tidal-wave","title":"Tidal Wave","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestsellers \u003ci\u003eA Higher Call, Spearhead, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDevotion\u003c\/i\u003e comes an astonishing true story set in an untold arena of World War II.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eTidal Wave\u003c\/i\u003e is epic in every way. Like all good WWII books, it reminds us again, in the starkest terms possible, how much we owe to those who won that war.\"--Daniel James Brown, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Boys in the Boat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt's summer 1943, and the world is on fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLieutenant Ernie Poulson\u003c\/b\u003e, a twenty-two-year-old outdoorsman from Utah, finds himself at the controls of America's most advanced bomber, the B-24, brought to North Africa for a top-secret mission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn the far side of Europe, \u003cb\u003eLieutenant Constantin Cantacuzino\u003c\/b\u003e, Romania's most daring ace, duels Soviet fighters on the Eastern Front while searching for purpose in an unwinnable war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn Nazi-aligned Romania, \u003cb\u003ePrincess Catherine Caradja\u003c\/b\u003e walks a perilous line between loyalty to her country and quiet defiance, as German forces dig in around the oil refineries in her backyard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd in the royal palace, twenty-one-year-old \u003cb\u003eKing Michael of Romania\u003c\/b\u003e--mocked and sidelined by a Nazi-backed dictator--quietly plots to seize his nation's destiny before it is lost forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTidal Wave, \u003c\/i\u003e Adam Makos brings these lives together in a sweeping saga of courage and survival, set against history's most audacious air raid: the treetop assault on \"Hitler's gas station\" at Ploesti, Romania. What begins in flames on August 1, 1943, sparks bonds no one could have foreseen--alliances between enemies--that will decide whether these men and women are consumed by war, or seize their chance at escape and redemption.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawn from years of extensive research and told with Makos's signature cinematic intensity, \u003ci\u003eTidal Wave \u003c\/i\u003ewill remind you that even in war's darkest hours, humanity has a way of breaking through.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ballantine Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":67625539797360,"sku":"9780593725276","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0954\/1304\/3568\/files\/imageloader_c00bf6c5-c717-4eec-9aca-841c6d669b34.jpg?v=1791055236","url":"https:\/\/aveson.store\/products\/tidal-wave","provider":"Aveson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}