L Douglas Keeney: 10 books
by L. Douglas Keeney
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Using recently declassified information; this book presents first ever history of WWII that recognizes D-Day as a milestone, air war victory over Germany. The book answers a question debated for years – on the most important day to the survival of the Third Reich, where was the Luftwaffe? The...
The Eleventh Hour
How Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and the U.S. Brokered the Unlikely Deal that Won the War
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In late November 1943, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Joint Chiefs of Staff secretly boarded the battleship USS Iowa to attend a conference in Tehran with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin, where the Allies would come to an agreement on a war...
Lost in the Pacific
Epic Firsthand Accounts of WWII Survival Against Impossible Odds
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
The minute a plane ditched in the ocean, a clock started ticking — and it ticked fast. They were young, but not frivolous. They were battle hardened pilots, but not without soft spots in their hearts for home. They were scared, but not without courage. Presenting the true, never-before-published stories...
Area 51 - The Secret Planes. The Secret Missions.
The Central Intelligence Agency and Overhead Reconnaissance: The U-2 and OXCART Programs, 1954-1974
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
During the Eisenhower Administration, scientists sought a remote location where sensational military breakthroughs would remain national secrets. A pair of engineers in a single-engine plane over the Nevada desert spotted an abandoned airstrip near the dried-up bed of an ancient lake. The government...
15 Minutes
General Curtis LeMay and the Countdown to Nuclear Annihilation
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Packed with startling revelations, this inside look at the secret side of the Cold War exposes just how close America came to total annihilation
During the Cold War, a flight crew had 15 minutes to get their nuke-laden plane in the air from the moment Soviet bombers were detected—15 minutes...
The Pointblank Directive
Three Generals and the Untold Story of the Daring Plan that Saved D-Day
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Where was the Luftwaffe on D-Day? Following decades of debate, 2010 saw a formerly classified history restored and in it was a new set of answers. Pointblank is the result of extensive new research that creates a richly textured portrait of perhaps the last untold story of D-Day: three uniquely talented...
Air-Sea Rescue
1941-1952
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
World War II arrived at a time when airplanes were scarcely thirty years old. Engines were small, passenger capacity was limited and only the biggest of the flying boats had the fuel tanks and safety features necessary to cross the oceans. But war changed that quickly and within a year, bombers and fighters...
The War Against The Nazi U-Boats 1942 – 1944
The Antisubmarine Command
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012
As Churchill clung to the last thread of hope, the supplies he so desperately needed sank in the Atlantic Ocean as German wolf packs savaged the convoys headed to England. To fight the threat, an audacious plan was created to counter the German submarines using long range bombers. In this lost history,...
by L. Douglas Keeney
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Did you know that the Coast Guard mounted a rescue effort on 9.11 and evacuated more than 100,000 New Yorkers from Manhattan by boat? Go to the little-known Naval Air Station Wildwood Museum in Cape May, New Jersey to discover that story. How about the remnants of the helicopter from Blackhawk Down...
by L. Douglas Keeney
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The invasion of Occupied Europe loomed but the battle against Nazi Germany was just in its infancy. Fighter production was on the rise, tanks were still rolling off the German production lines, and the early air attacks by the Allies had resulted in meager damage. Clearly a change was in order. In 1943,...