When Heroes Flew: Escape Through the Iron Gates

byH.W. "Buzz" Bernard

Book #8 ofWhen Heroes Flew

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To escape Nazi-occupied Europe, Captain Lars Moen must do the unthinkable: head straight toward Berlin.

Shot down during the legendary low-level raid on the Ploesti oil refineries, the B-24 pilot has one reason to survive: an infant daughter in Oregon who has already lost her mother. No prison camp in the Transylvanian Alps will keep him from her.

Aided by Romanian Princess Ecaterina Caradja and Rodica Lăzărescu, a farm girl whose command of languages may be their only hope of crossing occupied Europe, Lars breaks out and attempts the unthinkable. He follows the frozen Danube through the Iron Gates, then through Hungary and Austria toward Berlin itself.

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H. W. “Buzz” Bernard is a bestselling, award-winning novelist. Most recently, he was honored by the Military Writers Society of America (MWSA) as their 2025 Writer of the Year. Buzz is a past president of the Southeastern Writers Association and member of the Pacific Northwest Writers Association, MWSA, International Thriller Writers, and Atlanta Writers Club (member emeritus). He is a retired US Air Force colonel and a retired Weather Channel senior meteorologist. Buzz and his wife Barbara—his alpha beta reader—live a generally quiet life (because they’re too old to stir up much trouble) in Kennewick, Washington.