Time Out For War

By C. Cury

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425126579
• ISBN13: 9780425126578
• Release Date: May 1991
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Would Have Made a Great Movie

[Correction: The author is Ed C. Cury. GC] I received this book in a lot I had won on e-bay. I had neither heard of the title nor the author before. I began thumbing through and read a few sentences. Those few sentences turned to paragraphs, pages, and chapters; I could not put the book down. On his last bombing mission, B-17 pilot Captain Ed Cury is shot down over Nazi occupied France. Parachuting to earth and bleeding from an injury, he evades German patrols looking for him. He is finally captured but not before killing two Germans with his pistol. Withstanding increasingly torturous Gestapo interrogations, he reveals nothing and is sent to a POW camp in Germany. En route, his truck convoy is strafed by allied planes, and Cury seizes his opportunity to escape from the burning wreckage. Traveling at night, and hiding by day, Cury avoids patrols, dogs, and German aircraft looking for him. He commandeers a railroad pump-cart, kills more Germans, swims to the middle of the Rhine River and grabs hold of a rope trailing a river barge. Hitching a ride on the barge, he scampers aboard only to steal food. Ever cautious of being betrayed, Cury eventually hooks up with the French Resistance, and accompanies them on several clandestine sabotage missions. Ever the Casanova, Cury seduces a few female compatriots, (described in graphic detail) including a beautiful wealthy Countess, who was hiding him at her mountain top villa. To overcome the increasing difficulty of reaching the American lines, Cury decides to make-shift repair a damaged German plane and fly back himself. Hastily brushing "USA Don't Shoot" on the fuselage and wings in white paint, Cury, not sure the plane will even fly, and no radio, eventually lands safely, after a few close calls with American fighter planes. The $60,000 question: is Cury's story true? A handsome crooner before the war, Cury sang with such entertainers as Patti Page. He kept ties with personalities in the entertainment business after the war as well. A photograph on the dedication page shows an older Cury laughing it up on the Merv Griffin Show with friends Jack Klugman, and a young Jay Leno. Cury writes that Klugman was instrumental in convincing him to write his memoirs. The book reads like an epic World War II movie of the 1960s such as The Great Escape or Von Ryan's Express. Given Cury's show-biz connections, his book could easily have been converted into a movie script, a lucrative venture for its author. A photo section shows several of Cury's citations and awards, including a commendation for fighting with the French Resistance. A photo of Cury's hand-painted escape plane, however, looks like it was taken of a plastic model kit. I am reminded of an officer who was close to my father during the war. He related that after the war, he freely told of his harrowing experiences in combat. When those who had never experienced combat accused him of lying, he closed up and remained silent for decades. Was this the r

The True Story of an American WWII Hero

I may be partial, but this book contains the true war stories written by my Grandfather, Ed Cury. His life and contributions to our country are what heros are made of. I heard these war stories and accounts before the book was ever written and I am glad he has left us with the incredible accounts of the never forgotton WWII and the selfless courage of himself and all the men who served displayed. I remember his most cheerished thought was how proud he was to be an American and to have the honor of serving his country for our freedom.

WWII hero tells his true life story!

This is an incredible true story. A book I could not put down. I hope that this book gains more recognition. It deserves it. Ed Cury was a great person. A true hero. I first met him in 1983 and had the joy of hearing his stories first hand. He recently passed away (this year 1999) I will miss him.

A story of a downed US Airman in WW II.

First, this is supposed to be a true story. I do have somereservations on this, but frankly the story is so wellwritten, I don't really care. Mr. Curry probably did do 95 percent of the things here, and I'll give him the other 5 percent for bringing this story to the world. This is a book I just couldn't put down. A great read. There IS some sexual content (which is also where most of my disbelief lies), but what the heck. Its a darn good book.