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The Last Mission (Laurel-Leaf Historical Fiction)
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The Last Mission (Laurel-Leaf Historical Fiction) Mass market paperback - 1981

by Mazer, Harry

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In 1944, Jack Raab, a 15-year-old who dreams of being a hero, lies his way into the U.S. Air Force. From their base in England, Jack and his crew fly 24 treacherous bombing missions over occupied Europe. Hitler is near defeat, when Jack is shot down behind enemy lines and taken to a German POW camp.

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Laurel Leaf, 1981-01-15. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. 4x0x6.
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  • Title The Last Mission (Laurel-Leaf Historical Fiction)
  • Author Mazer, Harry
  • Binding Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition Seventeenth Prin
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 192
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Laurel Leaf, New York
  • Date 1981-01-15
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0440947979-4-22411721
  • ISBN 9780440947974 / 0440947979
  • Weight 0.22 lbs (0.10 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.01 x 4.34 x 0.77 in (17.81 x 11.02 x 1.96 cm)
  • Ages 12 to UP years
  • Grade levels 7 - UP
  • Reading level 620
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Ethnic Orientation: Jewish
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Aerial operations, Jews
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 79050674
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Harry Mazer's The Last Mission is drawn closely from his experiences as a seventeen-year-old in the Army Air Corps. Like Jack, he was a Jewish boy from the Bronx full of fantasies about heroism, and like Jack, he became a waist gunner and never fired his guns. He remembers, "I was scared every time we flew....On our 26th mission we flew over Pilzen, Czechoslovakia, to bomb the Skoda Munitions Works. We missed our target, turned over the target again, and were hit. I saw Mike, who was our radio operator, frozen in the door of the radio room. He never made it out of the plane. Only three of us parachuted....No one in the plane lived." ( ALAN Review, Fall 1980)
 
Harry Mazer is the editor of Twelve Shots: Outstanding Short Stories About Guns, where twelve authors explore the extreme emotions that guns provoke in all of us. Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Richard Peck and other well-known authors create a riveting collection of short fiction that explores the emotion-driven world of guns.

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In 1944, as World War II is raging across Europe, fifteen-year-old Jack Raab dreams of being a hero. Leaving New York City, his family, and his boyhood behind, Jack uses a false I.D. and lies his way into the U.S. Air Force.


From their base in England, he and his crew fly twenty-four treacherous bombing missions over occupied Europe. The war is almost over and Hitler near defeat when they fly their last mission -- a mission destined for disaster. Shot down far behind enemy lines, Jack is taken prisoner and sent to a German POW camp, where his experiences are more terrifying than anything he'd ever imagined.

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  • Booklist, 02/15/1992, Page 1101

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Harry Mazer's The Last Mission is drawn closely from his experiences as a seventeen-year-old in the Army Air Corps. Like Jack, he was a Jewish boy from the Bronx full of fantasies about heroism, and like Jack, he became a waist gunner and never fired his guns. He remembers, "I was scared every time we flew....On our 26th mission we flew over Pilzen, Czechoslovakia, to bomb the Skoda Munitions Works. We missed our target, turned over the target again, and were hit. I saw Mike, who was our radio operator, frozen in the door of the radio room. He never made it out of the plane. Only three of us parachuted....No one in the plane lived." ( ALAN Review, Fall 1980)

Harry Mazer is the editor of Twelve Shots: Outstanding Short Stories About Guns, where twelve authors explore the extreme emotions that guns provoke in all of us. Walter Dean Myers, Rita Williams-Garcia, Richard Peck and other well-known authors create a riveting collection of short fiction that explores the emotion-driven world of guns.

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