Author Talk: Tailspin

In November 1943, in the skies over Nazi Germany, Gene Moran, a wounded tail gunner from Soldiers Grove, WI lay in the severed tail of his Flying Fortress bomber. His parachute shredded by enemy fire, Gene fell four miles without a parachute and survived, but his ordeal had just begun.  Captured by the Germans, he survived a harrowing eighteen months as a prisoner of war, including a six-hundred-mile death march in 1945 across Central Europe. 

For more than sixty years, Gene said little about one of the most extraordinary stories of World War II until he met author John Armbruster. So begins a series of "Thursdays with Gene" interviews.  As the interviews go on, John faces an ordeal of his own. His wife is fighting brain cancer. What will happen to his wife and his two young children? John must continue uncovering Gene's story of survival as he himself confronts the greatest trial of his life.

Join author John Armbruster, as he discusses the resulting work in his book: Tailspin. More than a war story, Tailspin is a story of two men's separate journeys confronting trauma and loss. It's a story of resilience and hope. 

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