Terror of the Autumn Skies (eBook)

The True Story of Frank Luke, America's Rogue Ace of World War I

Blaine L. Pardoe (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2008
321 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-62873-809-4 (ISBN)

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The New York Timesbestselling author ';refreshingly re-tells, and corrects, the story of Frank Luke's life and amazing aerial exploits' (War Bird Ace author Jack Stokes Ballard). Frank Luke Jr. was an unlikely pilot. In the Great War, when fliers were still ';knights of the air,' Luke was an ungallant lonera kid from Arizona who collected tarantulas, shot buzzards, and boxed miners. But during two torrid weeks in September 1918, he was the deadliest man on the Western Front. In only ten missions, he destroyed fourteen heavily defended German balloons and four airplanes, the second highest American tally in the entire war. Author Blaine Pardoe retraces and refreshes Frank Luke's story through recently discovered correspondence. Frantic, short, and splendid, the life of Frank Luke Jr. dramatizes the tragic intervention of an American spirit in the war that devastated Europe. ';A brisk, nuts-and-bolts description of air warfare in the murderously flimsy flying machines of 1918.' Kirkus Reviews ';This painstaking biography of World War I ace Frank Luke will earn Pardoe kudos.. . Thorough annotation makes the book that much more valuable to WWI aviation scholars as well as for more casual air-combat buffs.' Booklist

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2008
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: aerial combat • aerial warfare • air ace • air battles • air chief • air combat • air corps • air defense • Air Force • Air Ministry • air service • air superiority • air war • air warfare • american ace • ANZACS • black crime • black lives • Black Males • bomber force • british fighter • british people • chief marshal • chief marshall • crime rates • criminal justice • defense system • false narrative • fellow pilots • fighter aircraft • fighter command • fighter force • fighter pilots • Fighting Crime • flying circus • german air • german attack • Historical account • hitler lost • Hugh Dowding • indian fighting • inner cities • justice department • lafayette escadrille • law enforcement workh • Mac Donald • mainstream media • marshal sir • massive german • Michael Brown • michael korda • military aviation • official history • operation sea • Police officers • Police shootings • Prison system • raf fighter • raf pilots • Red Baron • royal air • saved britain • sir hugh • stanley baldwin liberal media • statistical evidence • stream media • street journal • Violent crime • war effort • Winston Churchill • wwi flying • WW II
• ISBN-10: 1-62873-809-X / 162873809X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62873-809-4 / 9781628738094