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Author
Language
English
Description
Describes how the United States Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and chose those few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs of World War II. Among them was future Sen. George McGovern, who flew thirty-five combat missions and won the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The incredible true story of fighter pilot Joe Moser's war in the sky and secret survival at Buchenwald during World War II. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 316 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The author of the bestsellers "President Nixon" and "President Kennedy" details the harrowing journey of two men who risked their lives to defy the Soviet blockade intended to drive Western powers out of Berlin.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 470 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Despite Hitler's dictates on women's place being in the home, two fiercely defiant female pilots were awarded the Iron Cross during the Second World War. Other than this unique distinction and a passion for flying that bordered on addiction, these women could not have been less alike. One was Aryan Nazi poster-girl Hanna Reitsch, an unsurpassed pilot, who is now best-known for being the last person to fly into Berlin-under-siege in April 1945, in...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
British pilots James Teasdale and Bryan Young have been chosen to conduct a special photo-reconnaissance mission near Dresden, Germany. Intelligence believes the Nazis are building new factories that could turn the tide of the war. When their plane is shot down, James and Bryan know they will be executed if captured. With an enemy patrol in pursuit, they manage to jump aboard a train reserved for senior SS soldiers wounded on the eastern front. In...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
1000L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
A True Story of the Berlin Airlift and the Candy that Dropped from the Sky. Life was grim in 1948 West Berlin, Germany. Josef Stalin blockaded all ground routes coming in and out of Berlin to cut off West Berliners from all food and essential supplies. Without outside help, over 2.2 million people would die. Thus began the Berlin Airlift, a humanitarian rescue mission that utilized British and American airplanes and pilots to fly in needed supplies....
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations, color map.
Language
English
Description
Maggie and Horace the flies take readers back in time to explore the Tuskegee Airmen and the importance of their missions over Germany in World War II.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
1130L
Physical Desc
ix, 110 p : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"World War II was over, and Berlin was in ruins. US Air Force Lieutenant Gail Halvorsen knew the children of the city were suffering. They were hungry and afraid. The young pilot wanted to help, but what could one man in one plane do?"--dust jacket flap.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
xi, 243 pages 8 pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A chilling memoir by the man who flew the Führer. A decorated First World War pilot, Hans Baur was one of the leading commercial aviators of the 1920s before being pitched into the thick of it as personal pilot to a certain "Herr Hitler." Hitler, who loathed flying, felt safe with Baur and would allow no one else to pilot him. As a result, an intimate relationship developed between the two men and it is this, which gives these memoirs special significance....
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
256 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This is the personal account of a Luftwaffe aide always at Hitler's side from 1937 until the last days in Berlin, now published for the first time in English. Nicolaus von Below was a 29-year-old pilot when Goering selected him for the position of Hitler's Luftwaffe adjutant. He was with Hitler at every stage as the Second World War unfolded. His observations tell of Hitler's responses to momentous events as well as military decisions and policy-making...
13) The blue max
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 156 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A low-born infantryman becomes a pilot during World War I, almost deliberately stepping on the sensibilities of his aristocratic comrades in the process. A national hero, he wins the Blue Max, the highest award that can be bestowed upon an aviator. His fame is exploited by a general, who tolerates the affair between the pilot and the general's wife. The canny general knows that, eventually, the pilot will become expendable, and a "heroic" death can...
14) The last escaper
Author
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
viii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Peter Tunstall's memoir of his days in the British Royal Air Force and as one of the most celebrated British POWs of World War II. Tunstall was an infamous tormentor of his German captors. Dubbed the "cooler king" on account of his long spells in solitary, he once dropped a water "bomb" directly in the lap of a high-ranking German officer. He also devised an ingenious method for smuggling coded messages back to London. But above all he was a highly...
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 770 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. ; in 1 multi-disc DVD case
Language
English
Description
The birth of a nation: Nat Turner is a literate American slave and preacher. His financially strained owner accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. But as Nat witnesses countless atrocities, he orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
12 years a slave: The harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to...