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SUMMARY:An Evening with ADAM MAKOS\, Author of TIDAL WAVE
LOCATION:Midtown Scholar Bookstore-Cafe
DESCRIPTION:Join us on TUESDAY\, NOVEMBER 3\, 2026\, at 7 PM to celebrate t
 he book release of TIDAL WAVE: The Pilots\, the Princess\, and the Enemy A
 ce—A True Story of Courage and Survival in WWII by one of our all-time f
 avorite history writers\, ADAM MAKOS. He will be in conversation with TIM 
 LAMBERT\, editor-in-chief of the Pennsylvania Capital Star.About the BookO
 peration Tidal Wave produced five Medals of Honor and remains one of the c
 ostliest missions in American airpower history. But the extraordinary stor
 y that began after the bombers crashed in the foothills of Romania has nev
 er been told in full. In his new book TIDAL WAVE\, Adam Makos brings that 
 little-known aftermath vividly to life. The Ploesti oil fields—the objec
 tive of the famous August 1\, 1943 low-level B-24 raid—fueled the Axis w
 ar machine\, making them one of the most strategically important targets o
 f World War II. At a moment when energy infrastructure is once again centr
 al to global conflict\, the story of how the Allies attempted to destroy 
 “Hitler’s gas station” feels newly resonant. In TIDAL WAVE\, Makos r
 ecreates the attack itself\, and then shifts focus to what happened next: 
 the fate of the American airmen shot down over Romania\, and the extraordi
 nary Romanians who chose to help them. At the center of the story is Lt. E
 rnie Poulson\, a young B-24 copilot whose plane crash-landed on the estate
  of Princess Ecaterina “Catherine” Caradja. By nationality\, she was h
 is enemy\; Ernie and his fellow Americans had just bombed her country. But
  what she did next defied every expectation.As Makos widens the lens\, we 
 meet Catherine’s cousin\, Prince Constantine Cantacuzino\, Romania’s t
 op ace who fights for the other side but will ultimately face a choice to 
 help rescue the very Americans he faced in the air\, and King Michael I\, 
 the young monarch working to pull his country out from under Hitler’s gr
 ip before it’s too late.Drawing on newly uncovered sources\, family arch
 ives\, diaries\, letters\, and firsthand accounts\, TIDAL WAVE brings Mako
 s’s signature immersive\, character-driven approach to one of World War 
 II’s most legendary air campaigns. The result is at once a combat narrat
 ive\, an escape story\, and a deeply human account of courage\, resistance
 \, and reconciliation—asking what happens when the person you’ve been 
 taught to see as the enemy becomes the one willing to save you.About the A
 uthorHailed by the Associated Press as “a masterful storyteller\,”Adam
  Makosis theNew York Timesbestselling author ofA Higher Call\,Spearhead\, 
 andDevotion—now a major motion picture starring Glen Powell. The Los Ang
 eles Times places him “in the top ranks of military writers\,” a title
  earned through immersive research that has taken him from flying a World 
 War II bomber to journeying into North Korea in search of a missing Americ
 an aviator.You can find Adam @ AdamMakos.com.About the InterviewerTim Lamb
 ert is the editor-in-chief of the Pennsylvania Capital Star. A life-long P
 ennsylvanian\, he has spent his entire 32-year career bringing the stories
  of people and communities across the commonwealth to life. Pennsylvania C
 apital-Star is part of States Newsroom\, the nation’s largest state-focu
 sed nonprofit news organization.\n\nBoletos: https://www.simpletix.com/e/a
 n-evening-with-adam-makos-author-of-tidal-tickets-294064
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