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The best WWII book I
ever read is "The Big Show" by Pierre Closterman. Pierre was a French fighter pilot with the RAF. The book was written from his journal and letters to his parents back in France. ( I don't think he mailed them, he just wrote to them)
Very good read. |
PRESS ON- YEAGER
THE FLYING TIGER'S DIARY- CHARLIE BOND GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME !!!!!! |
Best aviation book
"West With the Night", Beryl Markham
A very poetic book about a young aviatrix flying in east africa in the 1930's. Hemmingway commented that the quality of writing in this book is superb. |
Slide Rule & Round the Bend
I just finished reading "Round the Bend" by Nevil Shute at 4:20 in the morning while my wife sleeps peacefully and I will join her soon. I read "Slide Rule" a week ago. I read both Nevil Shute books after learning about them here. I was able to get them through abebooks.com and they were a pleasure to read. Thanks.
Robert Buck died recently. He wrote "Weather Flying" and "North Star Over My Shoulder" which I enjoyed reading and I have in my library. "Weather Flying" is knowledge acquired through his exposure to weather passed on to the reader in a personal way. "North Star Over My Shoulder" is his fascinating autobiography. He was written up in Time magazine but I have seen nothing in the aviation press that I receive - seems a little surprising. Bob Axsom |
Bob
I must get my copy of "Round The Bend" out and re read it. As with your recent experience, Neville Shute's books are a delight. Whilst arguably a bit old fashioned now, he wrote gentle, uplifting and very readable novels. John PS Isn't "abe" a great source? |
For the testosterone challenged....
....or anyone whose passion in aviation focusses on small, uncontrolled GA airports and the communities around them, I vote for Zero 3 Bravo (Mariana Gosnell) . I just finished it today (thanks, Pardue!) and loved it. No flash or brash, just extraordinarily well-written prose about general aviation as I have experienced it.
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Lindbergh by A. Scott Berg
Into the Silk: True Stories of the Caterpillar Club by Ian Mackersey- Incredible tales of people whose lives were saved by parachutes. Out of print and hard to find. FYI - check WorldCat to locate books in a library near you. |
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The Few
Story of the 8 servicemen from the USA who not only fought in the Battle of Brittain, they violated the USA's strict neutrality laws for doing so!
In other words they pretty much signed away their US citizenship to fly Spitfires. One of the guys after becoming an ACE pilot in a Spit was killed in a CFIT accident...As I was doing my IFR training at the time it struck home pretty hard..I mean there is this guy who describes whatching cannon shells pass through his cockpit ...survives all that figthing day after grueling day and then smacks into the ground in cloud! Woah! Frank |
Fate is the Hunter
:) My vote is for "Fate is the Hunter" too. :) I also look forward to reading some more of the great list compiled by fodrv7 from this thread. Thanks, George
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