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  • The End of Healing

    A Journey through the Underworld of American Medicine

    de Jim Bailey ...
    WINNER OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN SILVER AWARD FOR POPULAR FICTION. For readers of Atul Gawande, Abraham Verghese, and Paul Kalanithi, a young doctor confronts his own demons on a journey through the healthcare underworld to uncover the roots of corruption in American medicine and find true healing. Illustration, syllabus, and reading guide included.A looming menace lurks within the towers of American ... Leer más

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  • The Sky Suspended

    A Fighter Pilot's Story

    de Jim Bailey ...
    'A haunting book ... brilliant' Financial MailFeaturing a foreword by Group Captain Peter TownsendIn 1939, at the age of nineteen, Jim Bailey was conscripted into the RAF to train as a fighter pilot.What happened over the next five years to Jim and the men he met, the men who fought, died and survived, is related with candour and quiet modesty in this book. It describes the youthful heroism of his ... Leer más

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    A Hurricane Pilot's Dramatic Story of the Battle of Britain

    de Tom Neil, DFC ...
    This is a fighter pilot's story of eight memorable months from May to December 1940. When the Germans were blitzing their way across France, Pilot Officer Tom Neil had just received his first posting to 249 Squadron.Nineteen years old, fresh from training at Montrose on Hawker Audax biplanes he was soon to be pitch forked into the maelstrom of air fighting on which the survival of Britain was to ... Leer más

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  • Into the Darkness

    Our Lancaster raced over the perimeter track and then tore down the slope through the dispersal area... with its wheels thumping on the grass but still firmly on the ground. It now seemed that nothing could save us and that, in the next couple of moments, we would disappear in a great explosion. I could hear Bob saying "Get off the ground, you bastard, get off," while Harry just said nothing... ... Leer más

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  • Flying Start

    A Fighter Pilot's War Years

    de Hugh Dundas ...
    "A personal and vivid view of the Royal Air Force's (RAF) engagement of the Luftwaffe in World War II . . . Exciting, valuable, and good reading." — Library JournalThis is the autobiography of Group Captain Sir Hugh Dundas CBE, DSO, DFC, who was one of the most distinguished fighter pilots of World War II. He writes of his wartime experiences, and particularly of his period as Squadron Leader and ... Leer más

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  • Luck and a Lancaster (2nd Edition)

    Chance and Survival in World War II

    de Harry Yates ...
    This book takes you, raid by raid, through the author's tour of operational duty over the last five months of 1944. It is a bomber pilot's story, but it is also about the grinding operational pressure, the brotherhood of the crew and fears of injury and death. It is about a squadron of Bomber Command that bore a barely-equalled burden in operational effort and losses. It is about young airmen the ... Leer más

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  • Night Fighter Over Germany

    'The Long Road to the Sky'

    de Graham White ...
    This WWII memoir of an NCO Royal Air Force pilot offers a vivid, personal account of wartime life and dangerous operations over Europe.In 1941, Graham White was passing a Royal Air Force recruiting center and, on the spur of the moment, signed up. As a non-commissioned RAF pilot, he went on to fly long-range night-fighters against the Luftwaffe. White experienced badly designed and dangerous ... Leer más

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  • A Thousand Shall Fall

    The True Story of a Canadian Bomber Pilot in World War Two

    de Murray Peden ...
    During World War II, Canada trained tens of thousands of airmen under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. Those selected for Bomber Command operations went on to rain devastation upon the Third Reich in the great air battles over Europe, but their losses were high. German fighters and anti-aircraft guns took a terrifying toll. The chances of surviving a tour of duty as a bomber crew were ... Leer más

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  • Fighter Aces of the RAF in the Battle of Britain

    de Philip Kaplan ...
    Ace fighter pilots from the British Royal Air Force share stories from the experiences during World War II's Battle of Britain.This book examines the reality behind the myths of the legendary RAF fighter aces during the Battle of Britain. It explains why only a small minority of pilots those in whom the desire for combat overrode everything accounted for so large a proportion of the victories. It ... Leer más

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  • Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps. Illustrated

    Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps by James McCudden is one of the most respected and insightful firsthand accounts of World War I aviation. Written by a top British fighter ace with 57 confirmed victories, the memoir traces McCudden’s remarkable journey from aircraft mechanic to decorated squadron leader in the Royal Flying Corps. Published shortly before his untimely death in 1918 ... Leer más

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  • Typhoon Pilot

    de Desmond Scott ...
    A decorated WWII flying ace and Royal Air Force Group Captain recounts his experience in the air over Europe in this thrilling military memoir.New Zealand fighter pilot Desmond Scott joined the Royal Air Force in 1940. Over the course of his illustrious service, he was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar, and a Distinguished Service Order. For the heroic act of rescuing a pilot from a ... Leer más

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  • King of Airfighters

    The Biography of Major 'Mick' Mannock DFC

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    A penetrating study of Britain's top World War I fighter ace, written by fellow pilot Ira Jones, the author of An Air Fighter's Scrapbook.Ira Jones' biography of Britain's top-scoring ace of the First World War has become the subject of some controversy over the last few years; most notably, it claims seventy-three "kills" for Mannock, making him the number-one-scoring Allied ace of the war. Later ... Leer más

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