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Carrier Pilot: One of the greatest pilot's memoirs of WWII - a true aviation classic.
- ASIN: B01MQGD6AF
- Manufacturer: Silvertail Books
‘It has everything a war memoir should have’ LEN DEIGHTON‘OF ALL THE AIRCRAFT I HAD EVER SEEN, THESE WERE THE MOST WICKED-LOOKING BASTARDS. THE CORSAIR LOOKED TRULY VICIOUS …’In 1942 Norman Hanson learnt to fly the Royal Navy’s newest fighter: the US-built Chance Vought Corsair. Fast, rugged and demanding to fly, it was an intimidating ... [Read More]
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Tail-End Charley: Stories from an American fighter pilot in World War II
- ASIN: B06XXLLVMG
On his nineteenth birthday, James E. Brown tries to fake to his flight instructor that he has flown before. On his twenty-first birthday, Brown is on his way home after logging eighty-five missions in a P-47 fighter over Italy, France, and Germany.Brown’s stories surrounding his training and combat experiences in World War II reveal brushes with ... [Read More]
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A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
- UPC: 884836574146
- ASIN: 0425255735
- ISBN: 0425255735
- Brand: Berkley Publishing Group
- Manufacturer: Dutton Caliber
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER: “Beautifully told.”—CNN • “A remarkable story...worth retelling and celebrating.”—USA Today • “Oh, it’s a good one!”—Fox News A “beautiful story of a brotherhood between enemies” emerges from the horrors of World War II in this New York Times bestseller by the author of Spearhead. Dec... [Read More]
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Sagittarius Rising
- ASIN: B00FOGG3E2
- Manufacturer: Frontline Books
‘Classic . . . the definitive account of aerial combat – full of passion and poetry’ – Max Arthur, Independent ‘Magical evocation of the lonely battle fought in the clouds’ – The Daily Telegraph ‘This is a book everyone should read. It is the autobiography of an ace, and no common ace either. The boy had all the noble tastes and qu... [Read More]
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Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
- ASIN: 0316796883
- ISBN: 0316796883
- Brand: Back Bay Books
- Manufacturer: Back Bay Books
John Boyd may be the most remarkable unsung hero in all of American military history. Some remember him as the greatest U.S. fighter pilot ever -- the man who, in simulated air-to-air combat, defeated every challenger in less than forty seconds. Some recall him as the father of our country's most legendary fighter aircraft -- the F-15 and F-16. Sti... [Read More]
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Stuka Pilot
- ASIN: 1908476877
- ISBN: 1908476877
- Brand: Brand: Black House Publishing Ltd
- Manufacturer: Black House Publishing
Autobiography of World War Two Luftwaffe pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel, the most highly decorated German serviceman of WW2, and the only one to be awarded the Third Reich’s most prestigious medal which was specially created for Rudel by Hitler himself, the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross with Golden Oak Leaves, Swords and Diamonds.Shot down over 24 ... [Read More]
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The Last Zero Fighter
- ASIN: B008LO3VIU
- Manufacturer: Pacific Press
Firsthand accounts from interviews conducted in Japan with five WWII Japanese Naval aviators. All are veterans of the pivotal battles of the Pacific War including; USS Panay, Nanking, Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, Rabaul, Port Darwin, Indian Ocean Raid, Ceylon, Midway, Guadalcanal, Marshall Islands, Tarawa, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, the Kamikaze in the Phili... [Read More]
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Night Witches: The Amazing Story Of Russia's Women Pilots in World War II
- ASIN: 0897332881
- ISBN: 0897332881
- Brand: Myles, Bruce
- Manufacturer: Chicago Review Press
In 1941, as Nazi hordes swept east into the Soviet Union, a desperte call went out for women to join the Russian air force. The result—three entire regiments of women pilots and bombers—was a phenomenon unmatched in World II. Through interviews with these courageous pilots, the author uncovers their story. Soon to be a major motion picture.... [Read More]
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Tippy: Tales of Flying Sergeants (Enlisted Fighter Pilots in WWII)
- ASIN: B00RU3NNZE
How did a backwoods, "Enlisted" Marine mechanic become a P-51 - Ace Pilot in WWll? Loosely based on an “Enlisted Marine” mechanic who flew a P-51 aircraft during WWII. (Normally, only Commissioned Officers were pilots.) These "enlisted" pilots fought like hellions in air battles in the European and South Pacific theaters against greater traine... [Read More]
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Daughters of the Night Sky
- ASIN: B06XTQ4YD1
- Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing
A novel—inspired by the most celebrated regiment in the Red Army—about a woman’s sacrifice, courage, and love in a time of war.Russia, 1941. Katya Ivanova is a young pilot in a far-flung military academy in the Ural Mountains. From childhood, she’s dreamed of taking to the skies to escape her bleak mountain life. With the Nazis on the march... [Read More]
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Soul Survivor: The Reincarnation of a World War II Fighter Pilot
- ASIN: 0446509345
- ISBN: 0446509345
- Brand: Grand Central Publishing
- Manufacturer: Grand Central Publishing
The parents of James Leininger were first puzzled and then disturbed when their two-year-old son began screaming out chilling phrases during recurrent nightmares, such as, "Plane on fire! Little man can't get out!" The centerpiece of a loving family of three, James was a happy, playful toddler who had only just begun stringing together sentences. D... [Read More]
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Sketches of a Black Cat - Expanded Edition: Story of a night flying WWII pilot and artist
- ASIN: 1535055286
- ISBN: 1535055286
- Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
(Paperback available in B&W or Full Color - click both format arrows - or Color Kindle) “They painted our planes black, we wondered about that, then they put flame arrestors on our engines. We were told the cabin would be completely blacked out, the cockpit windows were darkened, and we would be doing mainly night work…” LCDR Howard Miner, VP... [Read More]
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Masters of the Air: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
- ASIN: 0743235452
- ISBN: 0743235452
- Brand: Simon Schuster
- Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
The riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War Two, the story of the young men who flew the bombers that helped bring Nazi Germany to its knees, brilliantly told by historian Donald Miller and soon to be a major HBO series.Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the... [Read More]
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Moon Above, Moon Below (Moon Brothers WWII Adventure Series Book 1)
- ASIN: B01IO1PK9C
France, August 1944. In this alternate history WW2 adventure, American and British forces struggle to trap and destroy the still-potent German armies defending Normandy. But the Allies face another formidable obstacle of their own making: a seething rivalry between generals leads to a high-level disregard for orders that puts the campaign in the Fa... [Read More]
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Big Week: The Biggest Air Battle of World War II
- ASIN: 0802128394
- ISBN: 0802128394
- Manufacturer: Atlantic Monthly Press
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The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II
- ASIN: B06X3T8WGV
- Brand: Regnery History
- Manufacturer: Regnery History
*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER!*The New York Post calls The Last Fighter Pilot a "must-read" book.From April to August of 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin and a small group of fellow fighter pilots flew dangerous bombing and strafe missions out of Iwo Jima over Japan. Even days after America dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on Augus... [Read More]
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Ginger Lacey: Fighter Pilot
- ASIN: B00TZ89X4W
- Manufacturer: Endeavour Media
Ginger Lacey wanted to fly planes from childhood. But who would have thought that the slim and pale looking boy would become one of the most successful fighter pilots of the war?Almost unknown outside the RAF, Sgt. Pilot J.H. Lacey shot down more enemy aircraft in the Battle of Britain than any other fighter pilot.He shot down the Heinkel 111 which... [Read More]
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Zemke's Wolfpack: A Photographic Odyssey of the 56th Fighter Group During the Second World War
- ASIN: 0992620783
- ISBN: 0992620783
- Manufacturer: Fighting High Publishing
The only US 8th Army Air Force fighter group to retain the mighty P-47 Thunderbolt throughout its combat tour in the European Theater of Operations, the 56th Fighter Group justified its nickname of 'Zemke’s Wolfpack' by the aggressive attitude and tactics instilled by its original wartime commander Hub Zemke. This attitude continued through to VE... [Read More]
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Every Day a Nightmare: American Pursuit Pilots in the Defense of Java, 1941-1942 (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)
- ASIN: 160344176X
- ISBN: 160344176X
- Brand: Brand: Texas AM University Press
- Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
In December 1941, the War Department sent two transports and a freighter carrying 103 P-40 fighters and their pilots to the Philipines to bolster Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s Far East Air Force. They were then diverted to Australia, with new orders to ferry the P-40s to the Philippines from Australia through the Dutch East Indies. But on the same day... [Read More]
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Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16
- ASIN: B00DB39Y8M
- Manufacturer: William Morrow
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The definitive history of combat aviation and fighter aircraft, from World War I to present INCLUDES 32 PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS AND 12 MAPSLords of the Sky is the “dramatic, fast-paced, and definitive" (Michael Korda) history of fighter pilots and aircraft and their extraordinary influence on modern warfare, masterfully... [Read More]
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