Aviation & Nautical

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773861180Author Lou AllisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin Press

The story of Eugene Ely’s life is the stuff of myth and legend. Much of what has been written about him relies on sensationalized newspaper accounts from an era when early twentieth century reporters unabashedly fabricated stories to increase newspaper...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636242095Author LT Col Wayne K BlickenstaffFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Casemate PublishersPublisher Casemate PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913372159Author Isaac Norris HibberdFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Mystic Seaport MuseumPublisher Mystic Seaport MuseumWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939511372Author Roger VaughanFormat HardbackPage Count 335Imprint Mystic Seaport MuseumPublisher Mystic Seaport Museum

Faced with an empty nest, a couple embarks on an epic voyage across land and sea, seeking the mythical blonde Kermode bear-and their truest selves Kim Brown Seely and her husband had been damn good parents for more than twenty years. That was coming to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905999248Author John Barford LindopFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint MercianotesPublisher Mercianotes

In 1978, in the tailwind of the golden age of air travel, flight attendants were the epitome of glamour and sophistication. Fresh out of college and hungry to experience the world-and maybe, one day, write about it-Ann Hood joined their ranks. After a...

Black Tulip is the dramatic story of history's top fighter ace, Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann. It's also the story of how his service under Hitler was simplified and elevated to Western mythology during the Cold War. Over 1,404 wartime missions,...

It was Tuesday, 17 October 1939. Britain had been at war with Germany for more than a month and for only the second time the Luftwaffe had dared to enter British airspace - and at last James Jim' Bazin's chance had come. After joining the RAF in 1935,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800992597Author Jan WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593187272Author Don KeithFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Joe Singleton was an unlikely hero. A junior manager at a paints and varnish company at the outbreak of war, he was surprised to discover he had a hidden talent for flying. Despite RAF Fighter Squadrons crying out for replacements after the carnage of...

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The complete autobiography of an American hero, Jimmy Doolittle. Pilot, scholar, daredevil, general . . . James "Jimmy" Doolittle was one of America's greatest heroes. In a life filled with adventure and achievement, Doolittle did it all. As a stunt...

Decorated US navy SEAL lieutenant Jason Redman was critically wounded in 2007 while leading a mission against a key al-Qaida commander, when his mobility and assault forces team was ambushed and he was struck by machine-gun fire at point-blank range...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620900034Author Paul LiebrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Paul LiebrechtPublisher Paul LiebrechtWeight(grams) 152g

1942 would prove crucial for the United States in the Pacific following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and a series of setbacks in the Southwest Pacific late in 1941 into 1942. As the first ship commissioned following America's entry into World War...

As Allied air force bombers mercilessly pound Nazi Germany every night in late 1943, the decision is made to send a number of journalists on a mission to Berlin. One of them was a young American journalist Lowell Bennett, who had made his name reporting...

In Life Takes Wings, Captain Lynn Rippelmeyer soars with inspiration from a starry-eyed farm girl gazing at the sky to flight attendant to first female pilot of the revolutionary Boeing 747.More than just a story of one woman's love affair with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913372890Author Olin StephensFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Mystic Seaport Museum Stores Inc.,U.S.Publisher Mystic Seaport Museum Stores Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646638529Author Stephen C McKennaFormat HardbackPage Count 212Imprint Koehler BooksPublisher Koehler BooksWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Photo reconnaissance played a significant role during the Cold War, however it remained unknown to the public for many years because its product and methods remained classified for security purposes. While the U-2 gets most of the credit, low-level photo...

"As a young Afghan woman who dreamed of becoming an air force pilot, Niloofar Rahmani confronted far more than technical challenges; she faced the opprobrium of an entire society." -Pamela Constable, author of Playing with Fire and former Kabul and...

This untold story of early jet development, surviving the collapse of the Reich, and starting over in America is recounted by Reiner Decher, whose father Siegfried was an engineer on the team that designed the engine for the Me 262. Germany built the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780859791847Author Ken EllisFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

On the morning of December 22, 1964, at a small, closely guarded airstrip in the desert town of Palmdale, California, Lockheed test pilot Bob Gilliland stepped into a strange-looking aircraft and roared into aviation history. Developed at the...

This is the first hand account of a young man's entry into World War II in 1941, culminating in his role in the bombing of Dresden in February 1945 by RAF Bomber Command. This is not a gung-ho account of flying with Bomber Command, instead Musgrove takes...

This autobiography was originally written in 1946 by eight-victory WWII Fighter Ace, Jack Ilfrey. This new edition has been expanded with many new photographs (many never before published), a special color photo section, and three detailed aircraft...

Plying through the darkness at the very limit of the earth's atmosphere, the U-2's extrasensory intelligence-gathering sensors quietly intercept and redistribute mountains of information to a highly classified ground site, located at Osan Air Base, Korea...

Black Tulip is the dramatic story of history's top fighter ace, Luftwaffe pilot Erich Hartmann. It's also the story of how his service under Hitler was simplified and elevated to Western mythology during the Cold War.Over 1,404 wartime missions, Hartmann...

Trained as a pursuit pilot but assigned to an observation squadron, the indefatigable Bill Erwin flew twice as many hours over the front lines as any other pilot in the 1st Aero Squadron. His two primary observers, Byrne Baucom and Arthur Easterbrook,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914366345Author David JacksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Maple PublishersPublisher Maple PublishersWeight(grams) 526g

During Hank Zeybel's first tour in Vietnam he flew 772 C130 sorties as a navigator. He volunteered for a second tour, requesting assignment to B26s so he could "shoot back." When B26s were removed from the inventory, he accepted a Spectre gunship crew...

After the publication of his best-selling novel, Joseph Heller usually chose to deny that any of his richly drawn characters were based on his actual war mates. However, to those who served with Heller in the 340th Bomb Group the novel's characters were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771016219Author Marc GarneauFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint SignalPublisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Eagle pilot Rick "Kluso" Tollini's life has embodied childhood dreams and the reality of what the American experience could produce. In his memoir, Call Sign Kluso, Rick puts the fraught minutes above the Iraqi desert that made him an ace into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957240718Author Owen ChaseFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Warbler ClassicsPublisher Warbler ClassicsWeight(grams) 133g

When war broke out between Great Britain and the United States in 1812, Sir George Prevost, captain general and governor in chief of British North America, was responsible for defending a group of North American colonies that stretched as far as the...