📗 Libro en inglés MASTERS OF THE AIR

SCRIBNER - 9780743235457

Historia Universal II Guerra Mundial y guerra fría

Sinopsis de MASTERS OF THE AIR

The riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War Two, the story of the young men who flew the bombers that helped bring Nazi Germany to its knees, brilliantly told by historian Donald Miller and soon to be a major HBO series. Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes you on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people. Fighting at 25,000 feet in thin, freezing air that no warriors had ever encountered before, bomber crews battled new kinds of assaults on body and mind. Air combat was deadly but intermittent: periods of inactivity and anxiety were followed by short bursts of fire and fear. Unlike infantrymen, bomber boys slept on clean sheets, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the swing music of Glenn Miller's Air Force band, which toured US air bases in England. But they had a much greater chance of dying than ground soldiers. The bomber crews were an elite group of warriors who were a microcosm of America--white America, anyway. The actor Jimmy Stewart was a bomber boy, and so was the "King of Hollywood," Clark Gable. And the air war was filmed by Oscar-winning director William Wyler and covered by reporters like Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite, all of whom flew combat missions with the men. The Anglo-American bombing campaign against Nazi Germany was the longest military campaign of World War II, a war within a war. Until Allied soldiers crossed into Germany in the final months of the war, it was the only battle fought inside the German homeland. Masters of the Air is a story of life in wartime England and in the German prison camps, where tens of thousands of airmen spent part of the war. It ends with a vivid description of the grisly hunger marches captured airmen were forced to make near the end of the war through the country their bombs destroyed. Drawn from recent interviews, oral histories, and American, British, German, and other archives, Masters of the Air is an authoritative, deeply moving account of the world's first and only bomber war.

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Editorial: Scribner

ISBN: 9780743235457

Idioma: Inglés

Número de páginas: 688
Tiempo de lectura:
14h 18m

Encuadernación: Tapa blanda

Fecha de lanzamiento: 23/06/2017

Año de edición: 2007


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Escrito por Donald L. Miller


Donald L. Miller es catedrático emérito de historia del Lafayette College y autor de diez libros, entre ellos Vicksburg: Grant’s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy, y ganador de cuatro premios literarios. Fue profesor visitante en el All Soul’s College de Oxford y ha sido galardonado con el prestigioso Great Lakes Book Award por City of the Century, su historia de Chicago. Donald Miller Es asimismo autor de Los amos del aire. La historia de los aviadores que golpearon el corazón de la Alemania nazi, el libro que ha inspirado la nueva serie de Steven Spielberg y Tom Hanks tras Hermanos de sangre y The Pacific para Apple TV.
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