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Flying Start
A Fighter Pilot's War Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2011
This is the autobiography of Group Captain Sir Hugh Dundas CBE, DSO, DFC, who was one of the most distinguished fighter pilots of World War II. He writes of his wartime experiences, and particularly of his period as Squadron Leader and Wing Commander and his involvement in the Battle of Britain.
by Michael J. Durant, Steven Hartov
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2004
Piloting a U.S. Army Special Operations Blackhawk over Somalia, Michael Durant was shot down with a rocket-propelled grenade on October 3, 1993. With devastating injuries, he was taken prisoner by a Somali warlord. With revealing insight and emotion, he tells the story of what he saw, how he survived, and the courage and heroism that only soldiers under fire could ever know.
Bailout Over Normandy
A Flyboy’s Adventures with the French Resistance and Other Escapades in Occupied France
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
The thrilling memoir of a WWII fighter pilot’s fight for survival in Occupied France, working with the French Resistance and escaping Nazi capture.
A daredevil aviator in the famed 352nd Fighter Squadron, Ted Fahrenwald bailed out of his burning P-51 Mustang two days after D-day and was launched...
First Kills
The Illustrated Biography of Fighter Pilot Władysław Gnyś
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
Polish pilot Władysław (Władek) Gnyś was credited with shooting down the first two German aircraft of World War II on September 1, 1939. On this day, as Gnyś' squadron took off near Kraków to intercept the German invaders, German Stuka pilot Frank Neubert attacked, killing the captain. Władek,...
Guardian Angel
Life and Death Adventures with Pararescue, the World's Most Powerful Commando Rescue Force
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
“A fabulous read, filled with heroism, history, and hi-jinks, as author William F. Sine recounts his life as an Air Force Pararescue Jumper” (Readers’ Favorite).
US Air Force Pararescue is the most skillful and capable rescue force in the world, taking on some of the most dangerous rescue...
Devotion
An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From America’s “forgotten war” in Korea comes an unforgettable tale of courage by the author of A Higher Call.
Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they...
Hornet 33
Memoir of a Combat Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Combat helicopter pilots in the Vietnam War flew each mission facing the possibility of imminent death. Begun as a series of attempted letters to the Department of Veterans Affairs, this compelling memoir of an aircraft commander in the 116th Assault Helicopter Company—“The Hornets”—relates...
by Hans Ulrich Rudel
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
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...
by Peter B. Mersky; Ted W. Lawson
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2003
Ted W. Lawsons classic Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo appears in an enhanced reprint edition on the sixtieth anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan. One of the worst feelings about that time, Ted W. Lawson writes, was that there was no tangible enemy. It was like being slugged with a single punch in a...
Luck of the Devil
Flying Swordfish in WWII
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Robert le Page flew with the Fleet Air Arm from 1940 to 1945, mostly in 816 Squadron flying carrier-based Fairey Swordfish. He saw action mine-laying off Cherbourg, hunting U-boats, escorting convoys in North Atlantic and in the Arctic seas and covering D-Day. Much of his early war years were aboard...
Pucker Factor 10: Memoir of a U.S. Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam
Memoir of a U.S. Army Helicopter Pilot in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2003
"In 1963…there was no way I could have known, sitting in a classroom on that beautiful campus in Ohio, that by raising my hand I would be going to war in Vietnam and that I would see things, hear things and do things that most people cannot imagine."--James Joyce. The author was drawn...
by Mark Berent
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Mark Berent is a well-known author of many Vietnam airwar books and articles. In this article he recounts the people and events that motivated him to write. As he says:"They're out there now, somewhere beyond our eyes, beyond the clouds, rolling and soaring in towering cathedrals flying beautiful airplanes that need only the fuel of their love. These are the men I honor...
Marauder
Memoir of a B-26 Pilot in Europe in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2012
The B-26 Marauder was a formidable weapon in the campaign to defeat Hitler’s armies, and, in the words of his first copilot, “Louis Rehr “was the best there was” flying it. This memoir, which benefits from forty years of research on the combat history of the B-26, contributions from comrades,...
Sky My Kingdom
Memoirs of the Famous German World War II Test Pilot
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2009
The Sky My Kingdom is the fascinating autobiography of the famous World War test pilot - Hanna Reitsch (March 29, 1912 - August 24, 1979).
As the war progressed, Reitsch was invited to fly many of Germany's latest (and increasingly desperate) designs, including the rocket-propelled Messerschmitt...