{"product_id":"day-of-the-flying-fox-the-true-story-of-world-war-ii-pilot-charley-fox-9781550028089","title":"Day of the Flying Fox: The True Story of World War II Pilot Charley Fox","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e Commended for the 2009 Best Books for Kids \u0026amp; Teens\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Canadian World War II pilot Charley Fox, now in his late eighties, has had a thrilling life, especially on the day in July 1944 in France when he spotted a black staff car, the kind usually employed to drive high-ranking Third Reich dignitaries. Already noted for his skill in dive-bombing and strafing the enemy, Fox went in to attack the automobile. As it turned out, the car contained famed German General Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, and Charley succeeded in wounding him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rommel, who at the time was the Germans' supreme military commander in France orchestrating the Nazis' resistance to the D-day invasion, was never the same after that. Author Steve Pitt focuses on this seminal event in Charley Fox's life and in the war, but he also provides fascinating aspects of the period, including profiles of noted ace pilots Buzz Beurling and Billy Bishop, Jr., and Great Escape architect Walter Floody, as well as sidebars about Hurricanes, Spitfires, and Messerschmitts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Dundurn Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781550028089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 138\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 7.90w x 0.40d","brand":"Steve Pitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659489734812,"sku":"9781550028089","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_80ec7835-c5a2-4f59-b896-efdcd9fad257.jpg?v=1603894945","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/day-of-the-flying-fox-the-true-story-of-world-war-ii-pilot-charley-fox-9781550028089","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}