Flying With The Enemy Nominated For Award

I’m very honored to have been nominated by my publisher for the 22nd Annual EVVY Awards. Fewer than 5% of the books Outskirts Press publishes each year are nominated!

Congratulations!  We would like to officially nominate your book, Flying With The Enemy, for the 22nd Annual EVVY Awards. This is quite an accomplishment. Fewer than 5% of the books we publish each year are nominated, so this is truly a testament to your work! Outskirts Press published over 2,000 books in 2015 and we are only sending this email to fewer than 100 authors. You are one of them!

Congratulations again!  You and your book represent the very best of Outskirts Press.

Human or Inhuman

This is especially true in Oleg and Lev’s case. These young men understood these words and lived by them.

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Inspiring

I received this wonderful email from a dear childhood friend who became very close friends with my father over the years. (Actually, we consider you family Danny. Got any pics of you and Oleg? Please post it here.)

“George, I find Flying with the Enemy to be inspiring; anyone facing challenges can summon strength just by reading what your father endured. A gripping tale that is all the more compelling because it is 100% true.  Novels try to come close to this narrative, and miss the mark, because at the end, they are but fiction.”

“Honestly surprised it’s not a movie yet”

A nice review from an Audible audiobook fan. I’ve actually just started working on the screenplay!

“There have been many amazing survival stories that emerged in the aftermath of World War II, and Flying With the Enemy deserves to be up there with the greatest of them. Oleg’s story, lovingly packaged together by his son, gets more incredible as it goes along. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys similar stories, from Unbroken to Band of Brothers. While it is clear that the voice narrator’s accent is not his own, it does add a nice touch to an amazing story, making you feel as if Oleg was still with us, telling us the story of how he made it through World War II and came to be in America. Honestly surprised it’s not a movie yet. “

Learn From History

Oleg was a man without a country until America took him in. He loved his adoptive country for its constitution, democratic values, and freedoms – America was Utopia. He was always troubled when people who didn’t understand history messed with America’s way of life. Read Flying With The Enemy and learn about a pilot and his brother’s survival through World War II, Socialism, Communism, and “Utopia.”  

“They don’t ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.” -Boris Pasternak

“Nothing is possible without God. Belief in God gives you strength and energy. Governments that have faith in God have normal societies. There is evidence in life during the 20th Century that where there is no God – there is no life, no truth, and no light, but instead only complete chaos.”  -From Flying With The Enemy by Oleg V. Okševski

 

How to Read More

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