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In April 1945, Linz was one of Nazi Germany's most vital assets. It was a crucial transportation hub and communications center, with railyards brimming with war materiel destined for the front lines. Linz was also the town Hitler claimed as home and had long intended to remake as the cultural capital of Europe, filling its planned Fuehrermuseum with world-famous art stolen from his conquered territories. Inevitably, Linz was also one of the most heavily defended targets remaining in Europe. The airmen of the Fifteenth Air Force were a mix of seasoned veterans and newcomers. As their mission was unveiled in the predawn hours of April 25th, audible groans and muffled expletives passed many lips. The reality of that mission would prove more brutal than any imagined. Drawing on interviews with dozens of America's last surviving World War II veterans, as well as previously unpublished sources, Mike Croissant compellingly relates one of the war's last truly untold stories--a gripping chronicle of warfare, the death of Nazi Germany, and the beginning of the Cold War. It is also a timeless tale of courage and terror, loss and redemption, humanity and savagery.

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Mike Croissant retired from the CIA in 2021 after serving for more than twenty years as an analyst and targeting officer in locations ranging from Washington DC to the Middle East and South and Central Asia. More than a decade ago, he started seeking out veterans who served with his uncle in Italy during World War II. In the quest to learn about his uncle, who survived the war without a scratch but died in a plane crash shortly after the war ended, Mike discovered the facts revealed in Bombing Hitler's Hometown. He spent the next several years traveling across the United States and Europe, interviewing American veterans and Austrian civilians and visiting locations showcased in this book. Mike, who holds an undergraduate degree in political science and history from the University of Illinois and graduate degrees from Indiana University and Missouri State University, lives in Texas. J. Rodney Turner is a prolific audiobook narrator who specializes in historical fiction set in the post-Civil War era, as well as Westerns, mystery/thrillers, and crime dramas. Rodney served as an air traffic controller in the Navy and in the Federal Aviation Administration for a combined thirty-one years. He has two sons, four grandsons, and one granddaughter, and resides in a small farming community north of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife of over twenty years, Julie, and their daughter, Rylie.

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