Masters of the Air is a narrative history of the bomber war in World War Two. The U.S. had two air forces conducting strategic bombing in Europe during the war, the Eighth and the Fifteenth. The Eighth was the more powerful and was the one that bombed Germany. Masters of the Air is the story of the Eighth Air Force. Masters of the Air takes readers into battle with the crews, freezing in the air in unheated, unpressurized aircraft. It takes readers to East Anglia, where nearly a quarter of a million Eighth Air Force ...
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Masters of the Air is a narrative history of the bomber war in World War Two. The U.S. had two air forces conducting strategic bombing in Europe during the war, the Eighth and the Fifteenth. The Eighth was the more powerful and was the one that bombed Germany. Masters of the Air is the story of the Eighth Air Force. Masters of the Air takes readers into battle with the crews, freezing in the air in unheated, unpressurized aircraft. It takes readers to East Anglia, where nearly a quarter of a million Eighth Air Force personnel were stationed, many living among their English hosts. Air men had comforts unknown to the infantry: beds with clean sheets, nights at the local pubs. But they faced far worse odds than any other branch of the armed services. At the centre of the story is a single bomb group, the Hundredth, known as the Bloody Hundredth for its heavy casualties. Masters of the Air follows the Bloody Hundredth from basic training to the end of the war, when the POWs were reunited with their comrades back in England. Masters of the Air deftly mixes the strategic with the personal, giving the reader a riveting account of the bomber war while at the same time telling us unforgettable stories about the young men who flew these planes.
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Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. Cover and binding are worn but intact. A reading copy in fair condition. The dust jacket is housed in protective mylar for preservation. Dust jacket adhered to cover boards. Photograph page containing photographs 21-24 separated from binding. Moderate looseining to binding. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Dust jacket in very good condition. Fourth printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. The dust jacket has been placed in protective mylar for preservation. The text block is clean and free of staining. The binding suffers moderate loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
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Dust jacket in very good condition. Second printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. The dust jacket has been placed in protective mylar for preservation. The text block is clean and free of staining. The binding suffers minor loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.
A bombing war while necessary was costly on the crews that flew many of the missions that achieved little results many of the crews knew this yet the went up day after day hoping to get their 25 missions in.