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Me, Mom, and World War II
"Mr. Pishioneri weaves a great story that brings you through the times when love of family and love of country meant the world to the people of America." Hanging beneath a B-24 Liberator in flight, in 40 to 60 degree weather, bringing his own oxygen and heat with him in this hostile environment; a moving target for enemy fighters, gives one a unique perspective from which to ponder who and what it's all about. The author, a veteran of 35 bombing missions over occupied Europe during World War II, recalls his experiences illuminated by the insight of a Bachelor of Science in American History and 37 1/2 years of teaching Social Studies. A veteran storyteller and talented artist, he weaves his s...
Flying against Fate
During World War II, Allied casualty rates in the air were high. Of the roughly 125,000 who served as aircrew with Bomber Command, 59,423 were killed or missing and presumed killed—a fatality rate of 45.5%. With odds like that, it would be no surprise if there were as few atheists in cockpits as there were in foxholes; and indeed, many airmen faced their dangerous missions with beliefs and rituals ranging from the traditional to the outlandish. Military historian S. P. MacKenzie considers this phenomenon in Flying against Fate, a pioneering study of the important role that superstition played in combat flier morale among the Allies in World War II. Mining a wealth of documents as well as a...
Die Welt nach Wagner
Ein Standardwerk über den großen Komponisten - von einem der angesehensten Musikkritiker der USA. Beginnend mit dem Tod Wagners erzählt Alex Ross, was für uns zur Gegenwart geworden ist: Wir leben und sehen die Welt seit Wagner mit seinen Augen, seine Themen und Szenen prägen auch heute noch unser gesellschaftliches Bühnenbild. Wagner ist für Ross ein deutsches Drama, das sich aus der Wirklichkeit, aber auch aus dem Wahn speist. Sein Buch ist eine eindrucksvolle Kulturgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts, durchzogen von dem Erbe Richard Wagners - der widersprüchlich war, ungreifbar, vielleicht sogar unvollendet. Nur so ist auch seine Musik und sein Nachleben in Deutschland zu verstehen: Wir sind noch immer Wagner.
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The Bomber War
The bomber campaign against Germany is one of the most contentious of World War II. Was anything achieved by the deaths of thousands of German civilians-many of them women and children? Or were all means justified against Nazi Germany? Acclaimed military historian Robin Neillands examines every detail of the allied campaign led by British Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris: the strengths and fundamental flaws, the technical difficulties and developments and, above all, the day-to-day, night-by-night endurance of the crews flying to the limit in discomfort and danger, facing flak and enemy fire. Personal experiences of British, American, Canadian, Australian and other ally fliers pl...
The Mighty Eighth War Manual
Putting into the air the largest striking force ever committed to battle was a highly complex task and remains one of the great achievements of the war. With more than three hundred photographs and dozens of line drawings, this book relates the procedures and the improvisations that lay behind the success of this mighty air force. Over 1,700 aircraft at a time, involving 15,000 men and a vastly sophisticated supply chain, were engaged in a ceaseless war of high altitude daylight precision bombing that did much to secure eventual allied success.
