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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...
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...
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,...
by Lawrence Beesley
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Lawrence Beesley was one of the luckiest men on the Titanic. Although the word had been given, “women and children first,” he was nevertheless ordered into a lifeboat to make up the numbers. At the end of that fateful night he stepped, dry and physically unharmed, onto the deck of the rescuing...
Runway Visions
An American C-130 Pilot's Memoir of Combat Airlift Operations in Southeast Asia, 1967-1968
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
In February 1967, Air Force Lieutenant Vaughan arrived at Ching Chuan Kang Air Base in Taiwan to begin 14 months as a C-130 Hercules pilot, airlifting supplies and troops throughout southeast Asia. Feeling well suited, Vaughan had volunteered for the duty, but little had he realized the pressure associated...
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Famed aviation pioneer Donald Douglas once said "Every airplane flying today has some Jack Northrop in it." Northrop was an aviation genius who was more interested in developing new technology than selling airplanes or making a fortune. The Northrop story is the story of American aviation history; he...
How We Invented the Airplane
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2012
It was the realization of a dream as old as mankind. On December 17, 1903, two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio, achieved the first sustained, powered, heavier-than-air flight in a machine of their own design and construction. This book offers a concise and fascinating history of that remarkable...
Summary and Analysis of The Wright Brothers
Based on the Book by David McCullough
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Wright Brothers tells you what you need to know—before or after you read David McCullough’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This...
by Harold Gatty
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
During his remarkable lifetime, Harold Gatty became one of the world's great navigators (in 1931, he and Wiley Post flew around the world in a record-breaking eight days) and, to the benefit of posterity, recorded in this book much of his accumulated knowledge about pathfinding both on land and at...
God's Biker
Motorcycles and Misfits
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Zac’s Place is a church in Swansea. It is a small chaotic community of Jesus followers where the most fragile of life’s walking wounded try to work out their faith, because they quite simply wouldn’t fit anywhere else. It’s also the spiritual home for the local chapter of the motorcycle club...
Growing Up NASCAR: Racing's Most Outrageous Promoter Tells All
Racing's Most Outrageous Promoter Tells All
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
In 1949, when Humpy Wheeler was 11, he attended the very first NASCAR race. For the next ten years, he spent as much time in the pits as he could, and came to know many of the sport's pioneers. Eventually, Wheeler began promoting races at Carolina tracks such as Concord Speedway, Robinwood Speedway,...
by Maurice Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Four-time Formula One Drivers' Champion Alain Prost is one of the best racing drivers of all time.
Having discovered karting at the age of 14 during a family holiday, Prost progressed through motorsport's junior ranks, winning the French and European Formula Three championships, before joining the...
by Frank Worrall
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
LEWIS HAMILTON is the undisputed British hero of Formula One. His phenomenal successes have seen him move to third on the all-time Grand Prix winners list and, for a record-equalling third time, plant a British flag onto the mountain-top of motor racing.
With behind-the-scenes insight into...