Readers’ Reviews 

The Ulysses Flight by Paul Wańkowicz is an historical novel that captures the atmosphere of it’s time—The beginning of WWII around southeast Asia. Action, adventure, romance, and the reality of suffering endured by those who lived through the difficult days when Japan was expanding its empire. The lives and hardships of civilians and military personnel are described in accurate detail as background to a tragic love story. A true page-turner.

Ed Von Koenigseck
Technical Writing for Private Industry

I’m not normally a fan of war novels, but The Ulysses Flight kept me reading to the end. A beautiful Dutch refugee, a disenchanted American pilot and a distinguished British officer form an unlikely alliance to move three American planes past Japanese lines at the onset of World War II. Their mission becomes more vital when the team is asked to deliver a smuggled Japanese codebook to the Allies.
         Paul Wańkowicz has produced a well-researched book that is partly a story of budding love; partly a story of underdog dogfight survival and partly realistic war history. Many books offer a single viewpoint or character to describe the impact of war. But Wańkowicz shows how the war changes the lives and futures of local residents, as well as the Yanks, Brits, Aussies and even Japanese whose lives intertwined as they fought in the Malayan Peninsula and south. That “War is Hell” is proven in his pages.

Linda Jump
Author, Journalist, Photographer and Avid Reader
Palm Bay, Florida

The Ulysses Flight by Paul Wańkowicz is a page-turner which has almost everything; a fascinating setting, believable characters, a riveting plot, history and surprises produced by a knowledgeable author who provides authentic detail. The Ulysses Flight is more than a good flying story, it is an intimate picture of diverse people responding to the end of their pre-war world, and at the same time, taking courageous steps to influence the shape of the world to come. I hated to have it end.

Joe St. Georges
Old, bold pilot
Glenmore, Pennsylvania

Action adventures. The Japanese invasions of Burma, Malaya, and Java. Dogfights pit the Curtiss
P-40 fighter pilots against the agile Japanese Zeros. A spy captures a secret codebook. Impossible missions. Aviation history. Daring pilots. Transcendent love. Smart, competent, beautiful women. The Ulysses Flight has it all!

Anne Mack

This was certainly one of the best books I have ever read! The pages turned themselves once I got into the chapter that introduced Lisa to Frank! What a pair, and Mia and Johnny, too! Johnny was such a technical pro, so well-organized, knew what to do . . . brains of the trio and so unassuming! I loved how independent Lisa was, and such a forerunner of the Feminist Movement in all the good things! I like how points of view alternated from the Japanese to the British, Australian, and US. That look, the communication by the elderly Japanese fighter pilot who chose not to kill Frank, and then was killed by Lisa, was especially wrenching. She being unaware of his mercy, was just looking out for Frank, and thought it was a kill or be killed situation. So much misunderstanding and lack of communication during a war and chaos. Lots of thought-provoking issues here. I think you have an international bestseller on your hands.

Marie E. Roman
Poet, Artist, Author & Educator
Tinley Park, Illinois

Local authors offer their share of adventure. HOT OFF THE PRESS Melbourne publisher Terra Sancta Press has published Massachusetts author Paul Wańkowicz’s novel set in World War II. “The Ulysses Flight: A WWII Aviation Adventure Novel of Aerial Dogfights and Love, with a Glossary” ($24.95) tells the story of unlikely allies who must move three American planes beyond Japanese lines at the start of the war. Get it at terra sancta press.com or call 321-914-2290.

Chris Kridler, FLORIDA TODAY,

A superbly crafted aerial combat novel set in the Pacific Theatre of World War II, The Ulysses Flight author Paul Wańkowicz is able to add amazing details in large part because of his experiences flying with the Polish Air Force and the British R.A.F. in World War II. The Ulysses Flight is a deftly written and highly recommended action/adventure novel that combines aviation history with vividly portrayed aerial dog fights with truly memorable characters. The result is a thoroughly entertaining work that is especially recommended for personal reading lists and community library collections.

James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief,
Small Press Bookwatch: August 2010,
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Readership: General audiences, aviation buffs, history readers, mature high school students.

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