Author: Henry Probert
Publisher: Greenhill Books
Keywords: harris, bomber
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-08-29
List price: $18.95
ISBN-10: 1853676918
ISBN-13: 9781853676918
This is the definitive biography of one of the most controversial figures of World War II. Sir Arthur Harris remains the target of criticism and vilification by many, while others believe the contribution he and his men made to victory is grossly undervalued. Henry Probert’s critical but sympathetic new account draws on recent research and, for this first time, all of Harris’s own extensive papers, to give outstanding insight into a man who combined leadership, professionalism and decisiveness with kindness, humor and generosity. Bomber Harris provides the most complete picture of
Author: Gail S. Halvorsen
Publisher: Horizon Publishers & Distributors, Inc.
Keywords: bomber, candy, berlin
Number of Pages: 257
Published: 2002-04
List price: $18.98
ISBN-10: 088290616X
ISBN-13: 9780882906164
The Berlin Candy Bomber is a love story-how two sticks of gum and one man’s kindness to the children of a vanquished enemy grew into an epic of goodwill spanning the globe-touching the hearts of millions in both Germany and America. In June 1948, Russia laid siege to Berlin, cutting off the flow of food and supplies over highways into the city. More than two million people faced economic collapse and starvation. The Americans, English, and French began a massive airlift to bring sustenance to the city and to thwart the Russian siege. Gail Halvorsen was one of hundreds of U.S. pilo
Author: Philip Ardery
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: war, world, memoir, pilot, bomber
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1996-04-25
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0813108667
ISBN-13: 9780813108667
" Winner of the Best Aeronautical Book Award from the Reserve Officers Association of the United States "The sky was full of dying airplanes" as American Liberator bombers struggled to return to North Africa after their daring low-level raid on the oil refineries of Ploesti. They lost 446 airmen and 53 planes, but Philip Ardery’s plane came home. This pilot was to take part in many more raids on Hitler’s Europe, including air cover for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. This vivid firsthand account, available now for the first time in paper, records one man’s experience of World
Author: Sir Max Hastings
Publisher: Pan Books
Keywords: strategy, series, grand, pan, command, bomber
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1999-11-12
List price: $18.60
ISBN-10: 0330392042
ISBN-13: 9780330392044
An account which traces the development of area bombing, using documents, letters, diaries and interviews with key surviving witnesses. Bomber Command’s offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of World War II.
Author: Joe Kirby
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: georgia, america, images, plant, bomber
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2008-10-22
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0738567450
ISBN-13: 9780738567457
Few would have believed in the late 1930s that Depression-wracked Marietta and Cobb County, where cotton was still king, would later be the site of the largest industrial complex south of the Mason-Dixon line, or that it would be churning out hundreds of the largest and most technically advanced airplanes ever built to that point. Images of America: The Bell Bomber Plant uses more than 200 photographs to recount how opportunistic local leaders persuaded the federal government to build an airfield in Marietta and then parlayed it into the plant. It tells the story of how a workforce of underedu
Authors:Hansen, Ole Steen,
Publisher: Capstone Press
Keywords: books, edge, bomber, stealth, spirit
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $23.93
ISBN-10: 0736852557
ISBN-13: 9780736852555
Provides an in-depth look at the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber, with detailed cross-section diagrams, photographs, and additional facts and information.
Author: Robert Stedman
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Keywords: warrior, luftwaffe, crewman, bomber, kampfflieger
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 2005-12-10
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 184176907X
ISBN-13: 9781841769073
The Kampfflieger are relatively unknown within aviation circles, although many of them had careers as distinguished as those of their fighter-pilot counterparts. The men of the bomber crews did not enjoy the luxury of combat tours â€" they flew until they died or became unfit for combat duty. This book studies the attitudes, beliefs and motivation of the average crewman, following him through recruitment and training to experience on campaign in western Europe, Africa and the Russian front, detailing the exploits and trials of the famous Ju 87 ’Stuka’ dive-bomber crews and their
