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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Mariner Books edition.
Language
English
Description
The story of James, a pilot struggling to survive in a German POW camp, his young war-bride, Rose, back in England trying to make sense of her life, and his sister, whose own story is also rewritten by the tragedies of WWII.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
1943, in the ruins of Blitzed London, Stella Thorne and Dan Rosinski meet by chance and fall in love by accident. Theirs is a reluctant, unstoppable affair in which all the odds are stacked against them: she is newly married, and he is an American bomber pilot whose chance of survival is just one in five. He promised to love her forever. Seventy years later Dan makes one final attempt to find the girl he has never forgotten, and sends a letter to...
Author
Series
Vietnam volume 4
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
One of four friends who have volunteered to fight in the Vietnam War, the intellectual Beck is in the Air Force, where he is part of a crew spraying Agent Orange, but the destruction of the jungle and his isolation from the fighting going on below is starting to effect him.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The true account of a German shepherd who was adopted by the Royal Air Force during World War II, joined in flight missions, and survived everything from crash-landings to parachute bailouts--ultimately saving the life of his owner and dearest friend. In the winter of 1939 in the cold snow of no-man's-land, two loners met and began an extraordinary journey that would turn them into lifelong friends. One was an orphaned puppy, abandoned by his owners...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
The astonishing, never-before-told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II-when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines...During a bombing campaign, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. Local Serbian villagers risked their own lives to give refuge to the soldiers, and for months the airmen lived in hiding, waiting for rescue. In 1944, Operation Halyard was born. The...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Love blooms in the darkest days ... It's 1942, and London remains under constant threat of enemy attack as the second world war rages on. In the Bethnal Green neighborhood, Nellie Morris counts every day lucky that she emerges from the underground shelters unharmed, her loving family still surrounding her. Three years into the war, she's grateful to hold onto remnants of normalcy - her job assisting the mayor and nights spent at the local pub with...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
" From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. On September 1, 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the tiny Pacific archipelago of Palau, leaving behind a trail of mysteries. For more than sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the archipelago for clues...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
A true story of downed B-24s in Japanese-occupied Borneo and a native tribe that makes us like the airmen rethink our definitions of civilized and savage (Entertainment Weekly). November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut themselves loose from their parachutes only to be met by loincloth-wearing natives silently materializing out of the mountainous...
14) Sabrina
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. Sabrina depicts a modern world devoid of personal interaction and responsibility, where relationships are stripped of intimacy through glowing computer screens. An indictment of our modern state, Drnaso contemplates the dangers of a fake news climate."--
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Based on The New York Times best seller by Eric Schlosser the film tells the story of a 1980 accident at a Titan II missile complex in Damascus, Arkansas, in minute-by-minute detail through the accounts of Air Force personnel, weapon designers, and first responders who were there, revealing the incredible chain of events that brought America to the brink of nuclear disaster.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Airmen in the U.S. Air Force dedicate their lives to serving their country. But this doesn t always mean that service is spent in battle. Airmen have a variety of roles. Some roles are ones you would expect. But others, in addition to their day-to-day life, can be pretty surprising."--
Author
Series
A Nick Flynn novel volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Former US Air Force officer Nick Flynn joined the clandestine Quartet Directorate to continue its long-standing mission: to act decisively against serious threats to the free world. And with the backing of Russia's authoritarian president, no threat is more deadly than that of Pavel Voronin and his mercenary Raven Syndicate. Twice they have almost succeeded in bringing the United States to its knees, only to be stopped at the last moment by Flynn...
20) U.S. Air Force
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this book, readers will learn about the U.S. Air Force, its history and importance, duties and special missions, and how it relates to and works with other branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about the U.S. Air Force's duties, training, positions, special missions, and more. Infographics aid understanding, a Branch Recap lists stats and dates about...
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