New Book Uses WW I Airplanes Throughout

Review: Shadows of Eagles" by Stephen Lodge

Reviewed by Henry Custer, Florida/USA *(8/27/2003) * * * *The underlying theme of honor and respect permeates this fast paced story of a most unusual happening. Stephen Lodge has captured the essence of Texican pride and stubborn persistence as Cowboys chase Nazis across the hard desert mountains of southwest Texas. Using vintage WW1 planes, old trucks and cowboys on horseback, the action never slows. The author's intimate knowledge of the Big Bend country, along with his realistic dialogue takes the reader on a most intriguing journey. Based on a real story during WW2, the touching camaraderie between sworn enemies makes this an outstanding adventure. "Shadows of Eagles" is destined to become one of the great stories of our time.

Check out the website for "Shadows of Eagles" at:
http://www.shadowsofeagles.com

[Roundel]

Sounds a lot like Bearcats!, a TV show that ran on CBS in the autumn of 1971. *In it, Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole used a Stutz Bearcat, a Lewis machine gun, and (in one episode) a Curtiss Jenny to rout Germans and other villains in Arizona during WWI.

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Sounds a lot like Bearcats

Not even close, Herw's a short synopsis"

A band of courageous Texas Rangers pursue escaped Nazi prisoners-of-war across Texas in 1944. Shadows of Eagles is a rousing, historical action-packed-adventure based on fact, about the little known German POW camps established by the United States during World War II. The dangerous breakout by a group of Nazi prisoners activates a perilous pursuit, drawing together a prisoner, and three brave Americans--two veteran flying aces, a determined lawman, and a desperate woman -- in a boundless wartime undertaking deep in the Southwestern Texas Desert. Biplanes, horses, machine-guns, and Winchester rifles culminate in edge-of-the-seat air-combat over the magnificent badlands of America's Lone Star State.