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Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator

Door Samual Hynes

Categorie
WO II
Boeknummer
#326659-XD11
Titel
Flights of Passage: Recollections of a World War II Aviator
Auteur
Hynes, Samual
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
London : Penguin Books
Jaar van uitgave
2003
ISBN10
0142002909
ISBN13
9780142002902
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting
Samuel Hynes served as a consultant on ''The War'', directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and appears on camera in several episodes.

''The War'' is a seven-part, 14-hour documentary series that debuts on PBS on Sunday, September 23, 2007.

Sam Hynes was eighteen when he left his Minnesota home for navy flight school in 1943. By the time the war ended he was a veteran Marine pilot, still not quite twenty-one, and had flown more than a hundred missions in the Pacific theater. In this eloquent narrative, by turns dramatic, funny, and elegiac, Hynes recalls those extraordinary years during which he came of age. he makes real the places—the training fields and the liberty towns and the Pacific islands, and the people—the other young pilots, the girls and the young
... (Lees verder) wives, even the enemy pilots. He remembers friendship, and the excitement and tedium of war, the high exhilaration of flying, and the dying. More than a tale of combat, Flight of Passage is a story of one boy's growth to manhood in the turbulent, testing world of war in the air.
Pagina's
270
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 8,00

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