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David Westheimer (April 11, 1917 in Houston, Texas – November 8, 2005) was an American novelist best known for writing the 1964 novel Von Ryan's Express which was adapted as a 1965 film starring Frank Sinatra and Trevor Howard.
Nov 12, 2005 · David Westheimer, a bestselling novelist whose most successful work -- "Von Ryan's Express" -- drew on his experiences as a World War II prisoner of war and was made into a popular movie that...
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Nov 20, 2005 · David Westheimer, who wrote the novels ''My Sweet Charlie'' and ''Von Ryan's Express,'' which was turned into a movie starring Frank Sinatra, died here on Nov. 8. He was 88.
David Westheimer. born Houston, Texas: 11 April 1917. died Los Angeles, California: 8 November 2005. works (highly selected) Lighter Than a Feather (Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1971) [hb/] Downfall (New York: Bantam Books, 1972) [vt of the above: pb/]
He served in the US Army Air Force during World War II as a navigator aboard a B-24 bomber. His plane was shot down by Italian fighter planes and he spent 28 months in Italian and German POW camps. He based his novel "Von Ryan's Express" on his experiences as a POW.
- April 11, 1917
- November 8, 2005
The book My Sweet Charlie by David Westheimer is about the relationship between a white teen girl and a adult black man and how they find themselves in situations they need to face. This book made me understand more about the times when blacks were not slaves but were treated differently than whites.
Westheimer's imagining of an invasion of Japan is brutally real and totally convincing thanks to the unusual device of telling the story through numerous different characters on both sides of the conflict.
