Drawing on interviews with flying-boat pioneers, the author examines the political, military and economic forces that drove the development of the China Clipper flying boat and explains the aeronautic
The Twilight Warriors is the engrossing, page-turning saga of a tightly knit band of naval aviators who are thrust into the final---and most brutal---battle of the Pacific war: Okinawa.April 1945. Th
In 1948, when the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from acoalition of Arab states, a band of volunteer airmen from the United States,Canada, Britain, France, and South Africa arrived to
In 1948, only three years after the Holocaust, the newly founded nation of Israel came under siege from a coalition of Arab states. The invaders vowed to annihilate the tiny country and its 600,000 se
The Twilight Warriors, winner of the 2011 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, is the engrossing, page-turning saga of a tightly knit band of naval aviators who are thrust into the final—a
The first official history of the legendary aircraft carrier that fought in World War II and Vietnam and continues to serve as a major air and space museum in New York CityThe USS Intrepid is a warshi
An official history of the storied USS Intrepid and those who sailed with it follows the legendary aircraft carrier from its construction; through its service during World War II at Leyte Gulf, Okinaw