{"id":687994,"date":"2025-04-01T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T00:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=687994"},"modified":"2025-04-07T12:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T11:16:06","slug":"a-place-to-land-birds-of-war-by-rosalie-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/a-place-to-land-birds-of-war-by-rosalie-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"A Place to Land (Birds of War) by Rosalie Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Place to Land (Birds of War) by Rosalie Fox<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Book 2 of 3: Birds of War<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The sequel to A Tale of Wild Geese, A Place to Land picks up Johnny Reilly\u2019s story in Africa at the end of 1944.<br \/>\nWorld War Two had left all of them with scars, not all of them visible, and it wasn&#8217;t over yet. At night the Focke-Wulf still hunted him and the people he loved.<br \/>\nWhen his career as a fighter pilot had ended, Johnny Reilly had come to Africa to make peace with his beloved cousin, to bring her husband home to her. He hadn&#8217;t meant to stay, but the lovely Louise Viljoen had changed that when she kissed him in front of the hotel&#8230;<br \/>\nLou was the only girl who had him off guard and kept him that way. Somehow she knew how to help him through the nightmares. But he&#8217;d never had sense, then, had he? So he made more mistakes and then he was going to be father. He was a penniless, broken-down pilot and somehow he had to find a way to build a life for them, and he had to do it quickly.<br \/>\nTo do that, he needed a plane and when he learned of a man in Southwest Africa who could help him, he ventured to a little town called Kolmanskop to meet the Little Bird of the Namib Desert.<br \/>\nIt was another venture that went south, badly, and Johnny is forced to face the past, the things haunting him, and a man who had been an enemy. Suddenly the mission is no more to find a plane, but to survive and pray that the people he loves will come search for them, find them before it&#8217;s too late.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a story of love, brotherhood, adventure and one man&#8217;s quest to find a place to land and a way to put his demons to rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Place to Land (Birds of War) by Rosalie Fox Book 2 of 3: Birds of War The sequel to A Tale of Wild Geese, A Place to Land picks up Johnny Reilly\u2019s story in Africa at the end of 1944. World War Two had left all of them with scars, not all of them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":687995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687996,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687994\/revisions\/687996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}