Aces
True Stories of Victory and Valor in the Skies of World War II
Published on 13. October 2020
288 pages
978-0-7603-6801-5 (ISBN)
Description
Aces is an illustrated history of the brave World War II fighter pilots who earned the title of ace, with archival and modern photos of their aircraft.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Illustrations
140 color & 90 b-w photos
File size
21,90 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7603-6801-5 (9780760368015)
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02/2021
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Bill Yenne is the author of more than three dozen nonfiction books on historical topics. His books on aviation and military history have included Area 51 Black Jets-which T. D. Barmes, formerly with NASA High Range and Area 51 Special Projects, described as "not a book that the reader will lay down and not finish. It holds one's interest from front to back." Yenne has also contributed to encyclopedias of World War I and World War II and has been featured in several documentaries that have aired on the History Channel, the National Geographic Channel, the Smithsonian Channel, and ARD German Television. The Wall Street Journal notes that Yenne writes "with a cinematic vividness." Yenne has also authored ten novels and has penned several books on beer and brewing history.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 01 THE U.S. ARMY AIR FORCES
- Baumler and Tinker: The Volunteers
- Hill: Flying with the Tigers
- Wagner: The USAAF's First Ace
- Bong: America's Ace of Aces
- McGuire: He Died Trying
- Kearby: Top Pacific Thunderbolt Ace
- Gabreski: The USAAF Top Man in Europe
- Johnson: The Country Boy Ace
- MacDonald: With Lindbergh in the Pacific
- Preddy: The Top Mustang Ace
- Meyer: Most Likely to Succeed
- Gentile: An American Ace in Two Air Forces
- Zemke: From Wolfpack to Stalag
- CHAPTER 02 THE US NAVY AND MARINE CORPS
- McCampbell: The Navy's Top Ace
- O'Hare: The Most Daring Single Action
- Harris: Second Place Naval Ace
- Valencia: Kamikaze Killer
- Foss: A Marine Matches Rickenbacker
- Boyington: The Black Sheep
- Hanson: Top Corsair Ace
- CHAPTER 03 GERMANY
- Hartmann: There Is Only One Number One
- Mölders: First to Top the Red Baron
- Galland: The General Was an Ace
- Barkhorn: Also Over 300
- Rall: Germany's Number Three Ace
- Nowotny: The Austrian Expert
- Rudorffer: Thirteen on One Mission
- Bär: The Top Me 262 Jet Ace
- Steinhoff: The Man Without a Face
- Marseille: The Best Fighter Pilot Ever?
- CHAPTER 04 THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH
- Deere: A Hero of the Battle of Britain
- Pattle: The Top Ace in the Royal Air Force
- Johnson: The Top-Scoring Englishman
- Malan: The Sailor Was an Airman
- Tuck: The Caged Eagle
- Bader: The Legless Ace Who Couldn't Be Caught
- Beurling: The Highest-Scoring Canadian Ace
- Woodward: Canada's Number Two Ace
- Caldwell: The Top-Scoring Australian Ace
- Gray: New Zealand's Top Ace
- Wade: The Yank in the Royal Air Force
- CHAPTER 05 JAPAN
- Anabuki: Top IJAAF Ace
- Nishizawa and Iwamoto: The Two at the Top
- Sakai: The Man Who Lived to Tell the Tale
- CHAPTER 06 THE SOVIET UNION
- Kozhedub: The Soviet Union's Ace of Aces
- Pokryshkin and Rechkalov: Top Runners-Up
- Litvyak and Budanova: Not All the Aces Were Men
- CHAPTER 07 ITALY
- Visconti: Number One
- Lucchini: Baracca Della Segunda Guerra Mundial
- CHAPTER 08 FRANCE
- Clostermann: In the Shadow of René Fonck
- CHAPTER 09 POLAND
- Skalski: The First and Finest
- Horbaczewski: On Skalski's Wing
- Gladych: Five Air Forces and Three Lives
- CHAPTER 10 THE OTHER ALLIED AIR FORCES
- Czechoslovakia
- Norway
- Netherlands
- Belgium
- CHAPTER 11 THE OTHER AXIS AIR FORCES
- Slovakia
- Hungary
- Romania
- Bulgaria
- Croatia
- Spain
- CHAPTER 12 FINLAND
- Juutilainen: Finland' Ace of Aces
- Wind: Finland's Second Highest-Scoring Ace
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
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