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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14, the murderous rise of North Korea's founding dictator and the fighter pilot who faked him out In The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot, New York Times bestselling author Blaine Harden tells the riveting story of how Kim Il Sung grabbed power and plunged his country into war against the United States while the youngest fighter pilot in his air force was playing a high-risk game of deception--and...
42) Fatal terrain
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 6
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the U.S. paralyzed as China prepares to attack Taiwan, a group of gung-ho American civilians go to the island's help in a Megafortress bomber equipped with nuclear missiles. The novel follows their adventures as the two Chinas fight it out. By the author of Shadows of Steel.
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
40 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The true story of a young German girl, Mercedes Simon, and of the American pilot, Gail Halvorsen, who shared hope and joy with the children of West Berlin by dropping candy-filled parachutes during the Airlift.
44) Strike force
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a military coup in Iran leads to a crackdown on the Islamic theocracy, it seems as if a new era is dawning in the Middle East. But the old regime is not yet dead. The Pasdaran, declares a holy war on the new military regime in Iran and threatens to use every weapon in its arsenal - including nuclear weapons. No one in the Western world wants to get involved in this battle - except special adviser to the President Lieutenant-General Patrick McLanahan....
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvii, 266 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the daredevil Americans of the Lafayette Escadrille, who flew in French planes, wore French uniforms, and showed the world an American brand of heroism before the United States entered the Great War.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Helicopter pilot Captain Emma Cantrell has a chance to clear her military record in war-torn Afghanistan. She's not about to let anyone get in her way -- especially Afghan Captain Khalid Shaheen. Emma can't deny Khalid is one delicious piece of eye candy. But she's fallen prey to his kind of charm before --and she's NEVER makes the same mistake twice. Kahlid's fight against the insurgents makes him a target, but his need for justice runs deep. He...
50) Pilots in peril
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
viii, 374 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air. This book tells the story of that first great air war, illustrating its devastating emotional impact on the participants and their families in a narrative enriched by the private correspondence that flowed between them and diaries, reports and interviews. The aerial combat tactics that the sacrifices of those First World War aviators created became so tactically...
52) Top gun
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the elite Navy Fighter Weapons School, cocky, young pilots compete against one another in the air as well as on the ground.
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1993, U.S. women earned the right to fly in combat, but the full story of how it happened is largely unknown. From the first women in the military in World War II to the final push in the 1990s, The Fly Girls Revolt chronicles the actions of a band of women who overcame decades of discrimination and prevailed against bureaucrats, chauvinists, anti-feminists, and even other military women. Drawing on extensive research, interviews with women who...
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 23
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1914, reporter Josephine Hellinger meets an embittered British fighter pilot named Lance Winslow.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of Hidden Figures, debut author Patricia Pearson offers a beautifully written account of the remarkable but often forgotten group of female fighter pilots who answered their country's call in its time of need during World War II.
Author
Series
Dale Brown's Dreamland volume 15
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
517 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Ordered by the President to stop the Iranians from testing nuclear weapons, Air Force ace Turk Mako and his Delta Force team, deep within Iranian territory, must race against time to find and destroy several secret nuclear sites as the fate of the Middle East hangs in the balance. Original. 200,000 first printing.
Author
Series
Harlequin super romance volume 1973
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
379 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"To honor bonds forged twenty-five-years ago at West Point, Lieutenant Colonel Sam Avery leads an illegal mission deep into ISIS-held territory. Flying across Iraq in a stolen helicopter, Army Lieutenant Colonel Sam Avery knows that tonight will be his last mission. He and his crew will either be shot down by ISIS, or court martialed when they return. Sam doesn't care. He can't care. There is too much at stake. As the chopper flies through the night...
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