Aviation & Space
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Moral Imperative: 1972, Combat Rescue, and the End of America’s War in Vietnam
$27.99 Add to cartIn 1972, America was completing its withdrawal from the long and divisive war in Vietnam. Air power covered the departure of ground forces, and search and rescue teams from all services and Air Americ… [more below]
- Series: Modern War Studies
- Author: Whitcomb, Darrel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0700630066
- Language: English
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The First Fighter Pilot – Roland Garros: The Life and Times of the Playboy Who Invented Air Combat
$29.95 Add to cartRoland Garros enjoyed an exciting life. An aviation pioneer in the early 1900s, he taught himself how to fly a bamboo airplane despite crashing it at Versailles. He was a world-class athlete, a lawyer
- Author: Cobleigh, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: June 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1629671576
- Language: English
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Snake Pilot: Flying the Cobra Attack Helicopter in Vietnam
$19.95 Add to cartZahn reconstructed his year of combat in Vietnam with surprising detail, capturing the cockiness, angst, and attitude of the naive nineteen-year-old 1st Cavalry Division attack helicopter pilot of 197
- Author: Zahn, Randy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 1574886118
- Language: English
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Corsair: The F4U in World War II and Korea
$26.95 Add to cartThis is the remarkable story of an airplane that became a legend–with a sleek silhouette and bent wings, it doubled as a day and night fighter, could fly off carriers or from land, and served both as… [more below]
- Author: Tillman, Barrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1557509948
- Language: English
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Warnings Unheeded: Twin Tragedies at Fairchild Air Force Base
$29.99 Add to cartMass murder and military aviation disaster. One community’s experience with two fatal tragedies that occurred suddenly… but not without warning.
On 20 June 1994, a vengeance-seeking gunman opened fir
- Author: Brown, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: November 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0997863439
- Language: English
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The Wrong Stuff: The Adventures and Misadventures of an 8th Air Force Aviator
$21.95 Add to cartBetween April and July 1944, Truman Smith Flew thirty-five bombing missions over France and Germany. He was only twenty years old. Although barely adults, Smith and his peers worried about cramming a
- Author: Smith, Truman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0806134224
- Language: English
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Dam Busters: The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
$20.00 Add to cartThe night of May 16, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from an RAF airfield in Lincolnshire, England, each with a huge nine-thousand-pound cylindrical bomb strapped underneat… [more below]
- Author: Holland, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 11 2014
- ISBN10: 0802122787
- Language: English
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Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
$39.00 Add to cartOver the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also… [more below]
- Author: Bradley, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0316743798
- Language: English
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Indestructible: One Man’s Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII
$21.99 Add to cartIn this remarkable WWII story by New York Times bestselling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to rescue his family — imprisoned by the Japanese–and revolution… [more below]
- Author: Bruning, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 0316339415
- Language: English
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The Royal Air Force in Texas: Training British Pilots in Terrell During World War II
$19.95 Add to cartWith the outbreak of World War II, British Royal Air Force (RAF) officials sought to train aircrews outside of England, safe from enemy attack and poor weather. In the United States the first of six s… [more below]
- Series: War and the Southwest #8
- Author: Killebrew, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 13 2009
- ISBN10: 1574412728
- Language: English
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Lost Airmen: The Epic Rescue of WWII U.S. Bomber Crews Stranded Behind Enemy Lines
$29.99 Read moreLate in 1944, thirteen U.S. B-24 bomber crews bailed from their cabins over the Yugoslavian wilderness. Bloodied and disoriented after a harrowing strike against the Third Reich, the pilots took refug… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Charles E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 168451262X
- Language: English
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Lockheed F-104 G/J/S/AMA Starfighter: Aircraft in Detail
$41.00 Read moreA complete close up of the F-104 Starfighter, both single seat and two-seat versions, including aircraft from the US, Belgium, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Germany, Italy, and Japan.
- Series: Duke Hawkins
- Author: Pied, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: December 02 2022
- ISBN10: 2931083178
- Language: English
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The Mighty Eighth: Masters of the Air Over Europe 1942-45
$40.00 Read moreThe perfect companion to Masters of the Air on Apple TV+, this is a superbly illustrated examination of the aircraft, pilots, crews and operations of the US Eighth Air Force.
The US Eighth Air Force-k- Author: Nijboer, Donald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1472854217
- Language: English
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46 Driver a Marine Corps Helicopter Pilot’s Vietnam Memoir
$16.95 Add to cart“The kaleidoscopic tale of a Marine Corps CH-46 helicopter pilot and his comrades in Vietnam. This memoir is a tour through Marine Corps Officer’s Candidate School, naval flight training and the quagm… [more below]
- Author: Reiner, Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: November 19 2013
- ISBN10: 1604520841
- Language: English
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Making a Night Stalker
$19.99 Add to cartDavid Burnett takes readers into a unique world of the 160th Special Operations Aviation regiment. His journey starts in a conventional Army unit where he doesn’t feel fulfilled in his duties and obli
- Author: Burnett, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0999856502
- Language: English
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Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War
$19.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Sons and Soldiers comes the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during t
- Author: Henderson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 0061571377
- Language: English
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The Last Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Final Combat Mission of World War II
$16.99 Add to cart*A NATIONAL BESTSELLER *
The New York Post calls The Last Fighter Pilot a “must-read” book. From April to August of 1945, Captain Jerry Yellin and a small group of fellow fighter pilots flew dangero- Series: World War II Collection
- Author: Brown, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1684511895
- Language: English
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Fateful Rendezvous: The Life of Butch O’Hare
$26.95 Add to cartFighter pilot Butch O’Hare became one of America’s heroes in 1942 when he saved the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation. In fascin… [more below]
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Lundstrom, John B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: April 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1591142490
- Language: English
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Making a Night Stalker
$24.99 Add to cartDavid Burnett takes readers into a unique world of the 160th Special Operations Aviation regiment. His journey starts in a conventional Army unit where he doesn’t feel fulfilled in his duties and obli
- Author: Burnett, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: December 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0999856529
- Language: English
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Warnings Unheeded: Twin Tragedies at Fairchild Air Force Base
$19.99 Add to cartMass murder and military aviation disaster. One community’s experience with two fatal tragedies that occurred suddenly… but not without warning.
On 20 June 1994, a vengeance-seeking gunman opened fir
- Author: Brown, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: November 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0997863404
- Language: English
