On Falcon's Wings

On Falcon’s Wings is the heart-breaking story of five teenagers in Prague, Czechoslovakia, during World War II whose lives are unalterably changed when resistance commandos assassinate Gestapo general Reinhard Heydrich in 1942. In the tragic aftermath of the assassination the boys are kidnapped by German soldiers and sent by troop train to the Eastern front to dig anti-tank trenches, find safe passage through mine fields or perform whatever tasks their captors order them to do. Realizing that they will most likely be killed by the Russians or by the Germans or by accident, some of the teenagers manage to escape. During their perilous trip home, the boys are rescued by partisans, aided by sympathetic Ukrainians, and brutalized by Nazis. Scarred and traumatized, the boys who survive the harrowing journey back to Czechoslovakia must search for their loved ones and rebuild their lives in war-ravaged Prague.Umpleby, Marshall F. is the author of 'On Falcon's Wings', published 2004 under ISBN 9781413732719 and ISBN 1413732712.