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The aviators : Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the epic age of flight  Cover Image Book Book

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

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  • ISBN: 9781426211560 (hardcover) :
  • Physical Description: 464 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: Doolittle, James Harold, 1896-1993.
Lindbergh, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1902-1974.
Rickenbacker, Eddie, 1890-1973.
Adventure and adventurers > United States > Biography.
Aeronautics > United States > History > 20th century.
Aeronautics, Military > United States > History > 20th century.
Air pilots > United States > Biography.
Air pilots, Military > United States > Biography.
Heroes > United States > Biography.
United States > History, Military > 20th century.

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WINSTON GROOM is the author of 14 previous books of nonfiction and fiction, including Shiloh 1862, Vicksburg 1863, Patriotic Fire, Shrouds of Glory, Forrest Gump, and Conversations with the Enemy (with Duncan Spencer), which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He lives with his wife and daughter in Point Clear, Alabama.

WINSTON GROOM is the author of 14 previous books of nonfiction and fiction, including Shiloh 1862, Vicksburg 1863, Patriotic Fire, Shrouds of Glory, Forrest Gump, and Conversations with the Enemy (with Duncan Spencer), which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He lives with his wife and daughter in Point Clear, Alabama.


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