Stephen Hunter Citadel

For

R. Sidney Bowen,

author of

Dave Dawson with the R.A.F.

and

Red Randall at Pearl Harbor

and so many others, for teaching me

the glory of the story sixty-odd years ago

Epigraph

A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along and the words — or, rather, the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols — spring to life.

— Jorge Luis Borges


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