I felt like I had to follow A Gentleman in Moscow with Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See, because I read them back-to-back in 2025. They were the two best books I read last year. After finishing A Gentleman and enjoying it so much, I felt like whatever came next just simply would…
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Flying Ace George Preddy Jr. was from North Carolina
Many people are familiar with the name of World War I pilot Captain Eddie Rickenbacker — he held the record for enemy planes shot down. Far fewer people know that Greensboro’s George E. Preddy Jr. broke that record with his exploits in World War II. Preddy was born in Greensboro in 1919. He worked in…