Wings Over the Western Front
Author : Ernest Pollard
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Ornithologists
ISBN : 9780953221394
Author : Ernest Pollard
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Ornithologists
ISBN : 9780953221394
Author : Erich Maria Remarque
Publisher : Crw Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,59 MB
Release : 2012
Category : War stories
ISBN : 9781907360671
This First World War classic novel is written in the first person by a young German soldier, Paul Bauer. Only eighteen when he is pressured by his family, friends and society in general, to enlist and fight at the front, he enters the army with six school friends, each filled with optimistic and patriotic thoughts. Within a few months they are all old men, in mind if not completely in body. They witness such horrors and endure such severe hardship and suffering, that they are unable to even speak about it to anyone but each other. The 1930 film adaptation won two Academy Award.
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,21 MB
Release : 1945
Category : World War, 1939-1945
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Author : Martin W. Bowman
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 28,26 MB
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1473842263
This new publication from eminent military historian Martin Bowman chronicles the stories of airmen downed on the Western Front between 1914 and 1918, representing a contribution on the author's part to the 100th anniversary of the Great War. It's speciality focus makes for a truly unique compendium of visceral First World War accounts of the incredible, bloody, aerial battles flown by the RFC, German, American, British and Commonwealth pilots shot down over the Western Front, also including stories of their escapes and lives in PoW camps. Whilst the predominant focus is on the airmen who saw action during the Great War, the author also provides startling tales of female heroism. There is a full chapter dedicated to the life and death of Norfolk heroine, Edith Cavell, a Norwich-born nurse who saved the lives of hundreds of soldiers from both sides during the conflict, and perished in the endeavour. Amongst the famous pilots covered are; VCs Billy Bishop and Freddie West; Dice-with-Death Dallas; Mannock The King of the Fighter Aces and Frank Luke the Balloon Buster. This book contains vivid accounts of some of the most heroic actions in the history of aerial warfare, all taking place within the brutal four year stretch of the Great War.
Author : Lou Martin
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1412001072
The experiences of a captain flying, from 1976 to 1979, for a charter company indirectly owned by the Shah of Iran.
Author : Theodore Macfarlane Knappen
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Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Aeronautics, Military
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Author : Great Britain. Air Ministry
Publisher :
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Aeronautics, Military
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Covers the air war in Burma from the Royal Air Force point of view. Gives a detailed account of the RAF's efforts from the defeats of 1942 to final victory in 1945. Covers the pairing of land and air forces and comments upon Wingate's efforts to further success against the Japanese in this war front.
Author : V.M. Yeates
Publisher : Grub Street Publishing
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 35,23 MB
Release : 2004-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1908117990
Experience the chilling combat of World War I from inside an early biplane in this classic novel, by a pilot who lived through the war himself. France, 1914. The war on the land is taking to the skies . . . Pilot Tom Cundall is ready to take on the enemy in his trusty Camel fighter plane. But as he sees more and more planes shot down in flames, he begins to question the war, and what, or who, he is fighting for. There is no bitter snarl nor self-pity in this classic novel about the air war of 1914-1918, based very largely on the author’s experiences. Combat, loneliness, fatigue, fear, comradeship, women, excitement—they all are part of a brilliantly told story of war and courage by one of the most valiant pilots of the then Royal Flying Corps. Praise for Winged Victory “The greatest novel of war in the air.” —The Daily Mail (UK) ‘Beautifully written with a poet’s eye as well as a pilot’s eye.” —Evening Echo (UK) “Not only one of the best war books . . . but as a transcription of reality, faithful and sustained in its author’s purpose of re-creating the past life he knew, it is unique.” —Henry Williamson, author of Tarka the Otter
Author : Tom Willard
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812564778
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Augustus Sharps, Jr., of the Sabre Ranch in Arizona, makes his way to Tuskegee, Alabama, where for the first time in history, black men are being trained as combat pilots to fight the war in Europe and the Pacific. Augustus's family has been fighting America's wars since his grandfather rode with Buffalo Soldiers against the Apaches, and since his father fought in Cuba 1898 and in the trenches of the Western Front in World War I, and he is determined to follow their footsteps. Wings of Honor is the poignant and exciting story of a young man battling the odds to fly with the "Red-Tail Angels," the 99th U.S. Pursuit Squadron, and how he added to his family's honor in battles over North Africa, Sicily, and France, in the fury of the Second World War.
Author : Denis Gifford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3325 pages
File Size : 22,80 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1317836987
First published in 2001. The standard work on its subject, this resource includes every traceable British entertainment film from the inception of the "silent cinema" to 1994. Now, this new edition includes a wholly original second volume devoted to non-fiction and documentary film--an area in which the British film industry has particularly excelled. All entries throughout this third edition have been revised, and coverage has been extended through 1994.Together, these two volumes provide a unique, authoritative source of information for historians, archivists, librarians, and film scholars.