One Angel Left [Hardcover]

Jack Morris (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Canyon Creek Books (January 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0970642709
• ISBN-13: 978-0970642707
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,007,910 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing stories of coincidences., July 13, 2006

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Bob Marshall, Jr. (Woodside, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Angel Left (Hardcover)

Jack's story was first 'published' in Capt. John Foster's book 'Hell in the Heavens', (Putnam, Ace, Zanger, etc) as a 'rumor'. The rumor was that during WWII, a F4U pilot had been flying a mission to Rabaul out of Torokina, had been shot down near Rabaul, deep in enemy territory, and had been rescued (10 days later) by following a nearby river to the open ocean, inflated his life raft, and had been picked up by friendly forces. The rumor goes on to describe how he had been shipped back to the US to recover from his eye injury, but had later died in a training accident. The point was that pilots shot down, even in enemy territory could survive to tell the tale. Well, all except for the last part (about the pilot's demise) is told in Jack Morris's book. He tells the details of his survival to minute detail, but he tells amazing stories of coincidences after his tour of duty culminating in an amazing final coincidence. Worth reading, worth reading again. Truly an amazing life adventure.

5.0 out of 5 stars Jack Morris - One Angel Left, September 19, 2011

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E (Northern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: One Angel Left (Paperback)

I knew Jack for a few years before he passed away not long after the book was published; the book had been one of his life's last missions. He retired to Santa Rosa and was one of the most unassuming men one could hope to meet. The type of person who would look you in the eye with a smile and make you believe you were one of the most important people he had ever met. But like most of the fellas from the group, age and infirmity caught up to him too. Remarkable human being in addition to being a compelling writer and revealer of the human spirit.

There are some excerpts at worldwar2pilots.net It is not the typical war memoir that one would expect. In a sense that it is a chronology of life changing events in narrative form, it is. It has all the flying and and WW II action one would look for. But it is as much if not more so about the faith a man and a woman have in each other across time and distance and the incredible heights to which they can rise to overcome even the most daunting and dire of circumstances with little chance of success. An adventure book yes, but a tale of the three great virtues in the midst of inhumanity, horror, and terror. One Angel Left