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123) The code of love: the true story of two lovers torn apart by the war that brought them together
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
303 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Searching for an elusive enemy, forward air controllers (FACs) in Vietnam flew low and slow, often offering themselves as bait to draw fire from NVA troops. In addition to the perils of enemy fire--which ranged from lucky AK-47 shots to .51-caliber machine guns and SA-7 shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles--they also had to watch out for B-52 Arc-Light strikes and friendly artillery fire. FACs were regarded by many of their aviator brethren as insane,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 470 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 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
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
x, 386 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"By 1918 the great First World War 'aces' had become the stuff of legend, and names like Manfred von Richthofen, James McCudden and Edward Mannock were powerful symbols to the warring nations. To their contemporaries these men seemed invincible. Their tactical genius, aerobatic flying skills and deadly gunnery had left a trail of burning aircraft in the skies above France." "But the very nature of war was changing. In a desperate measure to counter...
131) The last escaper
Author
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...
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
5 sound discs (approximately 6 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Japanese and American fighter pilots and their battle over the Pacific during the Second World War. Focusing primarily on nine American pilots who were gunned down and captured by the Japanese on the isolated island of Chichi Jim, Bradley reveals the unsettling fate of these captured men, a story kept secret for sixty years.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An inspiring and epic tale of loss and redemption about two American servicemen: a Marine Corps pilot who was shot down in WWII and the modern-day soldier determined to bring home his remains six decades later.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xvi, 304 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A military memoir with inspirational stories and moral lessons for people on the battlefield, in boardrooms, or in their everyday lives, by a veteran air-refueling expert, with a foreword by Rush Limbaugh."--Provided by publisher.
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (958 min.) : sound, black and white, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The eagle and the hawk : World War I drama about rival pilots with opposing codes of honor and a reluctant hero struggling to deal with the horrors of war.
The last outpost : World War I drama about a British prisoner of war who is rescued from a firing squad by his mysterious cellmate John Stevenson.
Wake Island : Based on the true story of a handful of U.S. Marines holding out against an overwhelming Japanese air, land and sea assault.
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