{"product_id":"of-air-and-men-9781923501591","title":"Of Air and Men","description":"On November 8, 1935, the greatest aircraftof its time vanished into the night - and with it, two men, a legend, and the truth.\u003cp\u003eCharles Kingsford Smith, one of the most celebrated international figures of his age, and his young protégé and co-pilot Tommy Pethybridge, were never seen again. What remained was silence, heartbreak, and a mystery that would ripple across generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecades later, whilst on expedition in the remote waters off Myanmar, an intrepid explorer uncovers the wreck of the Lady Southern Cross. That discovery ignites a twenty-year journey to piece together what really happened, to strip away the myths that clouded Charles's memory, and to bring long-awaited closure to the families who endured in their absence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOF AIR AND MEN is a true story, epically told through the intimacy of historical fiction - where ambition and hardship, courage and vulnerability, love and loss intertwine. It is also the story of the women who bore the weight of that silence - and of a son, just shy of his third birthday when his father vanished and who, for ninety years, knew him only through the history books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil now . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the glamour and turbulence of the 1930s, and echoing into the lives still marked by that night, this is both a mystery unraveled and a legacy reclaimed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA haunting, human story - of those who flew, those who waited, and those who, against all odds, refused to let the truth be lost to time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Busybird Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781923501591\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 348\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d","brand":"Damien Lay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52284272181429,"sku":"9781923501591","price":28.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7bd4488b-3261-4ab1-b705-a0086d51fd55.jpg?v=1771990435","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/of-air-and-men-9781923501591","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}