Life imitates art - co-author, Victor Merkel, nuzzles under the chin of B-17, Memphis Belle... Ann Frommer and I wrote ("TailGunner: War Defines Us") and ("TailGunnerR3") to honor Gunner-Walter "Buck" Merkel... These novels let the reader witness gut-jarring missions over Nazi, Germany as he and fellow airmen dodged 8mm slugs... In the sequel, Buck Remke, now a veteran, still fights a war inside. Half way around the world, Istvan Kovacs, former Hungarian soldier and Gulag survivor returns to his homeland, now under Russian occupation.