Robert F Dorr: 13 books
A Handful of Hell
Classic War and Adventure Stories
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
*“These stories were being read by men who’d been there, done that. I had to have the personalities and the details right. They wouldn’t tolerate having men like themselves overly glorified, or to have war made glamorous. . . .” *
Aviator, diplomat, and historian, Robert F. Dorr was...
Fighting Hitler's Jets
The Extraordinary Story of the American Airmen Who Beat the Luftwaffe and Defeated Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Fighting Hitler's Jets brings together in a single, character-driven narrative two groups of men at war: on one side, American fighter pilots and others who battled the secret “wonder weapons” with which Adolf Hitler hoped to turn the tide; on the other, the German scientists, engineers, and pilots...
Air Combat
A History of Fighter Pilots
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
**In Air Combat, veteran and military author Robert F. Dorr has collected dozens of interviews from combat veterans who have experienced what it’s like to face the enemy in the skies above, from the first days of World War II to the current war on terror. **
Each story tells a first-hand account...
Marine Air
The History of the Flying Leathernecks in Words and Photos
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
Think of the U.S. Marines and you’ll naturally think of the peerless ground force that has always bravely answered America’s call to arms. But the Marines also have an air arm with a tradition every bit as proud and legendary as the ground infantry they support. Now, military historian Robert...
Mission to Berlin
The American Airmen Who Struck the Heart of Hitler's Reich
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
From Hell Hawks! author Bob Dorr, Mission to Berlin takes the reader on a World War II strategic bombing mission from an airfield in East Anglia, England, to Berlin and back. Told largely in the veterans’ own words, Mission to Berlin covers all aspects of a long-range bombing mission including pilots...
Hell Hawks!
The Untold Story of the American Fliers Who Savaged Hitler's Wehrmacht
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Hell Hawks sets a new standard for histories of the tactical anti-war in Europe. Veteran authors Bob Dorr and Tom Jones combine masterfully crafted veteran interviews with the broader picture of the air war fought by the Thunderbolt men. You gain a new appreciation of just how tough their deadly task...
Mission to Tokyo
The American Airmen Who Took the War to the Heart of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
From Hell Hawks! author Bob Dorr, Mission to Tokyo takes the reader on a World War II strategic bombing mission from an airfield on the western Pacific island of Tinian to Tokyo and back. Toldin the veterans' words, Mission to Tokyo is a narrative of every aspect of long range bombing, including pilots...
by Robert F Dorr
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
The first virtually all-jet war, the conflict in Korea saw F-86 Sabres of the USAF take on MiG-15s of the North Korean and Chinese air forces. Although the Allied pilots were initially taken aback by the ability of the communist fighter in combat, sound training and skilful leadership soon enabled...
by Robert F Dorr
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The ultimate piston-engined heavy bomber of World War 2, the first production B-29s were delivered to the 58th Very Heavy Bomb Wing in the autumn of 1943. By the spring of 1944 the Superfortress was bombing targets in the Pacific, and by war's end the aircraft had played as great a part as any weapon...
by Robert F Dorr
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
This book is the story of a majestic bomber of the propeller era flying perilous combat missions against a sleek, nimble warplane of the jet age, the Soviet MiG-15. A very heavy bomber and a sky giant during World War 2, at that time the B-29 was the most advanced combat aircraft in the world. By...
by Robert F Dorr
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The B-24 Liberator was built in greater numbers than any other US warplane, yet its combat crews live, even today, in the shadow of the less plentiful, but better-known, B-17. Accounts of the 'Mighty Eighth' in Europe, and indeed many of the books and films that emerged from the greatest air campaign...
by Robert F Dorr
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
The B-24 was heavily utilised in the North African and Mediterranean theatres by the USAAF's Fifteenth Air Force, with operations over the Ploesti oilfields in Rumania being some of the most famous missions undertaken by the big American 'heavy' in World War 2. The stirling work of the Fifteenth Air...
by Robert F Dorr
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Ever present in the Pacific from Pearl Harbor to VJ-Day, the B-24 Liberator proved to be the staple heavy bomber of the campaign. From its ignominious beginnings in the Allied rout in the Philippines and the Dutch East Indies, the bomber weathered the Japanese storm with a handful of bomb groups,...