History Net: Where History Comes Alive - World & US History Online » Aviation History Book Reviews http://www.historynet.com From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:01:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Book Review - Aces Wild: The Race for Mach 1 (Al Blackburn) : AVH http://www.historynet.com/book-review-aces-wild-the-race-for-mach-1-al-blackburn-avh.htm?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-review-aces-wild-the-race-for-mach-1-al-blackburn-avh http://www.historynet.com/book-review-aces-wild-the-race-for-mach-1-al-blackburn-avh.htm#comments Sat, 11 Aug 2001 01:01:01 +0000 HistoryNet Staff
Aces Wild: The Race for Mach 1, by Al Blackburn, Scholarly Resources Inc.,Wilmington, Del., 1999, $24.95.

A strange contest was waged over the Mojave Desert of Southern California in 1947–a duel in which the contestants never acknowledged that any competition …

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Aero Albums, Wind Canyon Publishing, P.O. Box 1445, Niceville, Fla.

Published between 1968 and 1971, Aero Album was a quarterly magazine on aviation from the Pioneer Age to the Jet Age, edited by Paul R. Matt and Kenn C. Rust …

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The Debden Warbirds: The Fourth Fighter Group in World War II, by Frank E. Speer, Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., Atglen, Pa., 1999, $45.

While other units of the Eighth Air Force were arriving in England, the 4th Fighter Group was created …

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Rumanian Air Force: The Prime Decade, 1938-1947, by Dénes Bernád, Squadron/Signal Publications, Carrollton, Texas, 1999, $11.95.

When Consolidated B-24D Liberator bombers returned from their massive raid on the Romanian oil refineries at Ploesti on August 1, 1943, survivors described running …

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Horses Don't Fly: A Memoir of World War I, by Frederick Libby, Arcade Publishing, New York, 2000, $25.95.

The original application of the airplane in war was to penetrate enemy lines to gather intelligence, essentially taking over the role of …

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The Age of Orion: The Lockheed P-3 Story, by David Reade, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Atglen, Pa., 1998, $49.95.

The U.S. Navy's need for a new airborne anti-submarine platform in the late 1950s and early 1960s was a direct result of …

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The Magic of a Name: The Rolls-Royce Story, by Peter Pugh, Volume One of a two-part series, Goldberg McDuffie, New York, 2000, $50.

This solid tome is the first part of a definitive two-volume history of one of the most …

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BOOTS FROM HEAVEN
This very thoroughly researched 270-page book presents French and American personal perspectives of the eventssurrounding an American bomber pilot's imprisonment in Germany's Buchenwald concentration camp during World War IIand his reunion with his French Resistance rescuers nearly …

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From Oklahoma to Eternity: The Life of Wiley Post and the Winnie Mae, by Bob Burke, Oklahoma Heritage Association, Oklahoma City, 1998, $20.

On the morning of August 16, 1935, I was 12 years old, living in western Oklahoma. I …

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Bombers From the First World War to Kosovo, by David Wragg, Sutton Publishing, United Kingdom, 1999, $44.95.

This book is a very uneven piece of work that should have been titled more properly "Impressions of Bombers (mainly British) from the …

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