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The aviators, Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the epic age of flight, Winston Groom

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The aviators, Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the epic age of flight, Winston Groom

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-455) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

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illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The aviators

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

827973791

Responsibility statement

Winston Groom

Sub title

Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the epic age of flight

Summary

This book tells the saga of three extraordinary aviators: Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle, and how they redefined heroism through their genius, daring, and uncommon courage. These cleverly interwoven tales of their heart-stopping adventures take us from the feats of World War I through the heroism of World War II and beyond, including daring military raids and survival-at-sea. With the world in peril in World War II, each man set aside great success and comfort to return to the skies for his most daring mission yet. Doolittle, a brilliant aviation innovator, would lead the daring Tokyo Raid to retaliate for Pearl Harbor; Lindbergh, hero of the first solo flight across the Atlantic, would fly combat missions in the South Pacific; and Rickenbacker, World War I flying ace, would bravely hold his crew together while facing near-starvation and circling sharks after his plane went down in a remote part of the Pacific. The author tells their intertwined stories, from broken homes to Medals of Honor (all three would receive it); barnstorming to the greatest raid of World War II; front-page triumph to anguished tragedy; and near-death to ultimate survival, as all took to the sky, time and again, to become exemplars of the spirit of the "greatest generation."--Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

These Three Men -- The King of Dirt -- The Man with the Outside Loop -- Can Those Be Stars? -- Air Combat Is Not Sport, It is Scientific Murder -- New York to Paris -- Man's Greatest Enemy in the Air -- I Was Saved For Some Good Purpose -- An Inspiration in a Grubby World -- His Halo Turned into a Noose -- The Raid -- We Were Slowly Rotting Away -- The Lone Eagle Goes to War -- Masters of the Sky

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