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When Heroes Flew: The Shangri-La Raiders

When Heroes Flew: The Shangri-La Raiders

byH.W. "Buzz" Bernard

Book #2 ofWhen Heroes Flew Series

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This gripping novel follows an American bomber crew through their secretive training, a harrowing raid on Japan, and on their desperate journey through occupied China to Chungking, the seat of the country’s wartime government.

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Inspired by the true story of Colonel Jimmy Doolittle’s raid on Japan in 1942, The Shangri-La Raiders is the next stunning installment of the When Heroes Flew WWII historical fiction series.

“Well-researched and well-told.” —Mark Sullivan, USA Today bestselling author of The Last Green Valley and Beneath a Scarlet Sky

This gripping novel follows an American bomber crew through their secretive training, a harrowing raid on Japan, and on their desperate journey through occupied China to Chungking, the seat of the country’s wartime government.

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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.
H.W.

H.W. "Buzz" Bernard

Publisher Severn River Publishing
Language English
Type Paperback
ISBN-13 9781648754234
Series When Heroes Flew Series
About the Author
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.
H.W.

H.W. "Buzz" Bernard

Product Details
Publisher Severn River Publishing
Language English
Type Paperback
ISBN-13 9781648754234
Series When Heroes Flew Series

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