by Steve Snyder | Jan 22, 2017 | Reviews
Reviewed by Aaron W. Hughey Jan 15, 2017 “Because Howard Snyder was the last man to bail out of the plane, he came down about 10 miles further west than the rest of the crew,” Steve Snyder explains in “Fate of the Crew,” the 28th chapter of “Shot Down: The...
by Steve Snyder | May 7, 2015 | Reviews
By Brittany Woolsey April 22, 2015 | 2:17 p.m. Steve Snyder always considered his father a hero. But it wasn’t until after his own retirement, and years after his father’s death, that he learned just how much of a story Howard Snyder had to tell. The...
by Steve Snyder | Mar 13, 2015 | Awards, Historical, Reviews
Reviewed by Claire Foster December 8, 2014 Detailed research puts the reader inside the cockpit, shoulder to shoulder with the pilot and crew. Steve Snyder’s masterful book, Shot Down, does justice to the adventures of his father, pilot Howard Snyder, and the crew of...
by Steve Snyder | Feb 1, 2015 | Reviews
WOW, what a read! I highly recommend this book to broaden your knowledge of air missions over Europe during WWII! This book is a memoir of Steve Snyder’s father, Howard Snyder. Howard was the pilot in command of the B-17 Susan Ruth and along with the nine other...
by Steve Snyder | Jan 26, 2015 | Reviews
Steve Snyder has done a magnificent job of producing a tribute to the B-17 crews of the Eighth Air Force generally, and the people of the Resistance in Occupied Europe. The story he has to tell is based on the recollections and contemporary letters of his father...
by Steve Snyder | Jan 17, 2015 | Reviews
Normally I never begin a book review like this—but allow me to just come right out and say it: this book is excellent. Steve Snyder’s Shot Down: The True Story of Pilot Howard Snyder and the Crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth is extraordinary. When the book arrived in the...
