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Soul survivor
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Bruce Leininger |
This is the story of James Leininger, who-- a little more than two weeks after his second birthday-- began having blood-curdling nightmares that just would not stop. When James began screaming out re… |
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The Spitfire Smiths
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R. I. A. Smith |
viii, 216 p., [16] p. of plates : 23 cm |
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The White Knight (The House of Winslow #40)
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Gilbert Morris |
A fighter pilot in Spain, Luke Winslow loses the woman he loves and turns from his faith. When he accidentally kills an old friend while drunk, out of guilt, he tries to help his friend's sister, Joe… |
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Enduring Courage
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John F. Ross |
From the Introduction...
Rickenbacker lived at a time when the latest machines of the industrial revolutions were ripping apart the ages-old rhythms of plow and steam. When he was seven, the first… |
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Lords of the sky
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Dan Hampton |
"The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot and retired USAF F-16 legend Dan Hampton offers the first comprehensive popular history of combat aviation--a unique, entertaining, and action-pa… |
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Black Sheep One
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Bruce Gamble |
Black Sheep One is the first biography of legendary warrior and World War II hero Gregory Boyington. In 1936, Boyington became an aviation cadet and earned the "wings of gold" of a naval aviator. Aft… |
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Pusher aces of World War 1
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Jon Guttman |
Pusher fighters, designed with the engine at the rear and the machine gun at the front, may have looked ungainly, yet they were able to hold their own remarkably well against their German counterpart… |
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Enduring courage
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John F. Ross |
At the turn of the 20th century the invention of the car and the airplane took our imaginations by storm and produced new American heroes: the race car driver and the flying ace. No one did more in t… |
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Hephaestus and the island of terror
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Joan Holub,Suzanne Williams,Craig Phillips |
When the Olympians arrive on the island of Lemnos, they meet the metal-working Hephaestus who is hesitant to leave with the gods, stating that the only way he will join them is if he gets to be their… |
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Marked for death
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James Hamilton-Paterson |
Little more than ten years after the first powered flight, aircraft were pressed into service in World War I. The romance of aviation had a remarkable grip on the public imagination, propaganda focus… |
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Bailout Over Normandy
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Ted Fahrenwald |
286 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : 23 cm |
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Stalin's had it now!
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James Stevenson |
"An Englishman's light-hearted account of his two year's National Service, and learning to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Force in the 1950s."--Amazon.com. |
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Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton
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John McCain,Amy Shively Hawk |
xxiii, 229 pages : 24 cm |
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Entertaining war
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Lynn A. Carroll |
No one expected this kind of terrorist. Lieutenant Colonel Laura "Fox" Den is a fighter pilot and the first woman to command an F-22 Raptor squadron. Widowed five years before by a terrorist attack t… |
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Star Wars
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Aaron Allston |
Wraith Squadron: they are the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force. Sleek, swift, and deadly, they are the first in battle, the last line of defense. Now they must find and destroy a wily enemy mor… |
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War in a Stringbag
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Charles Lamb |
Commander Charles Lamb fought an exceptional war flying the slow and obsolete Fairey Swordfish for the Fleet Air Arm. It was an antiquated machine, but it could outmanoeuvre almost any other aircraft… |
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Pushing the Envelope
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Marion E. Carl |
A blunt, spare autobiography from a past president of the American Fighter Aces Association. Carl neither minces nor wastes words in recalling a distinguished career as a US Marine Corps aviator, whi… |
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Serenade to the Big Bird
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Bert Stiles |
Without the Allies’ mastery of the skies—so hard fought for and won—there could have been no invasion, while the subsequent land battle was shaped by what happened in the air above. Air power was abs… |
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Star Wars
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Michael A. Stackpole |
It is the evil heart of a battered and reeling Empire: Coruscant, the giant city-world from whose massive towers the Imperial High Command directs the war. The Rebels will invade this mighty citadel … |
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