Bomber Aircrew Experience (eBook)

Dealing Out Punishment from the Air

Philip Kaplan (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
240 Seiten
Skyhorse Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-5107-0263-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Discover the wartime experiences of the bomber boys in World War II.Flying bombers during World War II was a harrowing ordeal. Unlike the fighter jocks, who pit their skill and wits against each other in agile aerial combat, the bomber boys had to endure the fear and savagery of the air war with grim acceptancetheir only option to sit and take it. Manning lumbering machines that could not maneuver or defend themselves effectively, the aircrews had to rely on tight aircraft formations and their own bravery to survive the onslaught of enemy fighters and anti-aircraft artillery. Within these great planes, they developed bonds like no other; young men thrust together in a shared fate, risking their lives in slow-moving yet beautiful and powerful aircraft over the skies of numerous war zones, thousands of feet above the battlegrounds but no further away from the horrors.Fully illustrated with hundreds of color and black-and-white photographs, as well as dozens of interviews, Philip Kaplans The Bomber Aircrew Experience offers an intimate glimpse into the life and times of these wartime airmen. The bomber boys recount their harrowing missions over Germanys industrial heartland, paving the way for Allied victory in the Second World Wars European Theatre. Discover what it was like to man such planes as the great Flying Fortress and the Liberator, and what it was like for the British and Commonwealth boys flying night missions in the Lancasters, Halifaxes, and Stirlings. And then finally, learn about the development of the modern stealth bombers: the F-117 Nighthawk and the B-2 Spirit.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in history--books about World War II, the Third Reich, Hitler and his henchmen, the JFK assassination, conspiracies, the American Civil War, the American Revolution, gladiators, Vikings, ancient Rome, medieval times, the old West, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

Philip Kaplan, formerly a book designer with Harper & Row, and an art director with Playboy, Atlanta, and Architectural Digest magazines, has written, coauthored and designed thirty-eight books, including The Bird Farm, Silent Service, and Tank. He lives in Gloucestershire, England.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.6.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: 1943 • 91st • 92nd • Aircraft • Airplane • Altitude • America • b-17s • b-24s • Bearings • bombers • Bombing • bombs • books on 92nds • books on aircraft • books on altitudes • books on bearings • books on bombers • books on bombings • books on bombs • books on briefings • books on co-pilot • books on crews • books on engines • books on fighters • books on flaks • books on formations • books on gloves • books on helmets • books on liberators • books on missions • books on october • books on planes • books on planners • books on raids • books on regensburg • books on runways • books on schweinfurt • books on squadrons • books on take-offs • books on targets • books on wests books on airplanes • Briefing • Co-Pilot • cordite • coveralls • Crews • Eighth • Engines • Fighters • Flak • Formation • framlingham • Germany • gloves • helmet • Liberator • missions • ninety-two • october • Planes • planners • Plating • RAID • Regensburg • Runway • Schweinfurt • squadron • Take-off • targets • wests
• ISBN-10: 1-5107-0263-6 / 1510702636
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5107-0263-9 / 9781510702639