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Wings of glory volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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In this WWII-era romance, Allie is promised to a man she doesn't love, but a furloughed B-17 bomber pilot captures her heart. Will she honor her family's wishes or take a chance on true love?
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English
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"Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This 'Bomber Mafia' asked:...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"A gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounting the history of the Dresden Bombing, one of the most devastating attacks of World War II. On February 13th, 1945 at 10:03 PM, British bombers began one of the most devastating attacks of WWII: the bombing of Dresden. The first contingent killed people and destroyed buildings, roads, and other structures. The second rained down fire, turning the streets into a blast furnace, the shelters into ovens,...
Author
Series
Wings of glory volume 3
Language
English
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A young war widow covers her pain with the frenzy of volunteer work until the spark of her romance with a WWII pilot propels them both into peril.
10) Taxi dancer
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
2015, c1985
Language
English
Description
A novel based on an elite corps of jet pilots who flew controversial and highly dangerous bombing raids over North Vietnam. Captain Barney South has flown ninety hazardous missions. He has already used up more than his fair share of luck. With ten more missions to go, he doesn't need the brand of flak he's been getting from the brass, who have more use for dead heroes than live troublemakers. And now they're offering him a long shot the most important...
Author
Series
Wings of glory volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Gifted novelist spins a second story of love, courage, and sacrifice in this satisfying WWII-era historical romance.
13) The aviators
Author
Series
Brotherhood of war volume 8
Language
English
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Description
1964.The Vietnam War has begun to escalate, its new style of battle demanding new weapons and tactics and men who can use them. Overnight, it seems, the U. S. Army must scramble to create its first-ever Air Assault Division. As the hostilities increase, the warriors and the women who love them are swept into the struggle, their personal and professional lives twisting and intertwining as they race against time
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Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes you on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people. Fighting at 25,000 feet in thin, freezing air that no warriors had ever encountered before, bomber crews battled...
Publisher
History
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"For nearly a decade, the legendary World War II aircraft carrier USS Enterprise held a pivotal place on the turbulent seas of war, engaging in some of the fiercest multi-front battles ever witnessed in modern combat. The only carrier to be front and center in every major sea conflict in the Pacific, the Enterprise and her crew's battles were marked by intense firepower, instinct and a 360-coordination between surface ships, the aircraft above and...
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