Perilous Moon

“A volume that’s not quite like anything else: the story of [the author’s] father and the Nazi air ace who shot him out of the sky over Occupied France” ( Open Letters Monthly ). Perilous Moon is a lavishly illustrated book that observes Occupied France during World War II through the eyes of British bomber pilot Neil Nimmo and newly discovered period photographs. Shot down by Luftwaffe night fighter pilot Helmut Bergmann, Nimmo and his crew were the German’s sixth of seven victims in forty-six