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After nearly eight years in development, Valor Studios' own Adam Makos is back with another incredible, true story of WWII combat and courage — and you can pre-order it now, autographed and personalized to you by Adam!
Tidal Wave tells the story of the young American pilots tasked with knocking out the oil refinery network at Ploești — and what happened to one crew after they were shot down and forced to turn to the most unlikely source to survive: their enemy.
Packed with aerial combat, unlikely allies, and daring escapes, this 300+ page book immerses you in the European Air War from the first page to the last, brought to life with maps and nearly 100 period photos.
Releasing November 3, in time for holiday gift giving, now is the time to secure your first edition, first printing hardback while supplies last.
ADAM WILL PERSONALIZE HIS INSCRIPTION (CHOOSE BELOW) TO THE FIRST NAME LISTED IN YOUR SHIPPING ADDRESS
Shipping added in checkout // ships bubble wrapped & boxed
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It’s summer 1943, and the world is on fire.
Lieutenant Ernie Poulson, a twenty-two-year-old outdoorsman from Utah, finds himself at the controls of America’s most advanced bomber, the B-24, brought to North Africa for a top-secret mission.
On the far side of Europe, Lieutenant Constantin Cantacuzino, Romania’s most daring ace, duels Soviet fighters on the Eastern Front while searching for purpose in an unwinnable war.
In Nazi-aligned Romania, Princess Catherine Caradja walks a perilous line between loyalty to her country and quiet defiance, as German forces dig in around the oil refineries in her backyard.
And in the royal palace, twenty-one-year-old King Michael of Romania—mocked and sidelined by a Nazi-backed dictator—quietly plots to seize his nation’s destiny before it is lost forever.
In Tidal Wave, Adam Makos brings these lives together in a sweeping saga of courage and survival, set against history’s most audacious air raid: the treetop assault on “Hitler’s gas station” at Ploesti, Romania.
What begins in flames on August 1, 1943, sparks bonds no one could have foreseen—alliances between enemies—that will decide whether these men and women are consumed by war, or seize their chance at escape and redemption.
Drawn from years of extensive research and told with Makos’s signature cinematic intensity, Tidal Wave will remind you that even in war’s darkest hours, humanity has a way of breaking through.
