A Hostage To Fortune Author:Ernest K Gann The last cautious thing that Ernest K Gann did in his life was to be born. A smash movie maker at sixteen. Amilitary school renagade at 18. A world wide traveler who bought a Peking sing song girl for $1000. A radio city music hall impresario cartoonist and casting director, March Of Time newsreel camera man, man on the run in Nazi Germany. Dare... more »devil of the skies, World War 11 pilot the flyer who almost destroyed the Taj Mahal and who kept a powerless, passenger laden airliner aloft over the Pacific. A haunted Husband who lost to drugs a once beloved wife - and to the sea, a son. The spellbinding story of his own life.(he was also the auther of Band of Brothers)« less