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Tirailleurs: A History of the 4th Louisiana and the Acadians of Company H
The Fighting Never Stops: The Story of Jim McVeay
Voices from Company D: Diaries by the Greensboro Guards, Fifth Alabama Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia
Youth, the First Victim of War: One B-24 Air Crew in 1944
America's Invisible Gulag: A Biography of German American Internment & Exclusion in World War II: Memory & History
George Preddy, Top Mustang Ace
Alone on Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher's Story (Bluejacket Books)
Let Us Meet in Heaven: The Civil War Letters of James Michael Barr, 5th South Carolina Cavalry
Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer
Tales of Thunder Run : The convoys, the Noise, the Ambushes... Stories of Ql 13, the Route 66 of Viet Nam
Death in the Delta
Pathfinder : John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire
All at Sea: Coming of Age in World War II
Grant
Sixteen Hundred Men: A Personal Remembrance, United States Naval Academy, 1932-1936
Combat Chaplain: A 30-Year Vietnam Battle
The Twenty-Five Year Century: A South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon
Myth Of Nathan Bedford Forrest (American Crisis Series, No. 16)
Sherman's Civil War: Selected Correspondence of William T. Sherman, 1860-1865 (Civil War America)
Mustin: A Naval Family of the Twentieth Century
The Rescue Season: The Heroic Story of Parajumpers on the Edge of the World (Thorndike Press Large Print Adventure Series) [LARGE PRINT]
The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father's War
The Lemon Dance: Tell Fidel El Rojo Is Coming

From the Cockpit: Coming of Age in the Korean War

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Darn good stuff!

From the Cockpit: Coming of Age in the Korean War
Tex Atkinson
Manufacturer: John M. Hardy Publishing Co.
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Binding: Hardcover

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The Few

ASIN: 0971766746

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An autobiography of a naval aviator who flew over 100 combat missions in the Korean War. Tex Atkinson flew F4U Corsairs and AD Skyraiders. He served on the USS Princeton and USS Boxer.

An important contribution to the history of naval aviation with detailed and often chilling accounts of combat flying during the Korean War and of straight-deck carrier operations during that time. Includes excellent descriptions of the flying characteristics (and hazards) of the Corsair and Skyraider.

Also a very human story with accounts of the author's growing up years in Hillsboro, Texas and his attendance at Southwestern University. There is an interesting account of a Willie Nelson concert to benefit the restoration of the Hill County courthouse which burned to the ground and was completely rebuilt to look like the original.

Book includes two photo sections (32 pages total) of excellent personal and naval aviation photography.

This is a much expanded and much higher quality edition than the paperback edition published by Publish America. DO NOT CONFUSE THE TWO. There is little comparison.

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Highly Recommend.......2003-07-17

I highly recommend this book to anyone who really wants to know what it was like for someone in the Korean War. It is easy to read and you feel like you are right there with him. Excellent!

Darn good stuff!.......2003-02-16

A damn fine read! It's just like he's sitting by the grill smelling steaks and sipping martini's as he spins his tales of yesteryears!

Cold War Hothouses: Inventing Postwar Culture from Cockpit to Playboy

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a nostalgic looking back

Cold War Hothouses: Inventing Postwar Culture from Cockpit to Playboy

Manufacturer: Princeton Architectural Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1568983026

Book Description

The technological innovation and unprecedented physical growth of the cold war era permeated American life in every aspect and at every scale. From the creation of the military-industrial complex and the beginnings of suburban sprawl to the production of the ballpoint pen and the TV dinner, the artifacts of the period are a numerous and diverse as they are familiar. Over the past half-century, our awe at the advances of postwar society has softened to nostalgia, and our affection for its material culture has clouded our memories of the enormous spatial reorganizations and infrastructural transformations that changed American life forever.
Cold War Hot Houses casts a clear, even playful, eye on this pivotal time in history, examining topics as diverse as the creation of the interstate highway system and the shopping center, and the domestication of the national parks as well as the production of such seemingly mundane products as the drive-in theater, aluminum foil, and the king-size bed. The result is a vivid snapshot of American culture that still resonates today.
This beautifully illustrated collection of essays is based on a series of seminars focusing on the impact of the Cold War on the built environment, which was recently conducted at Princeton University by Beatriz Colomina. Colomina is editor of Sexuality and Space.

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a nostalgic looking back.......2006-07-05

The book is a collection of essays that give us a frankly nostalgic look at American society during the Cold War. Now that the war is over, and the US won a largely bloodless victory, the passage of time has removed much (all?) of the tension and fears. All that is left is a safe nostalgia, burnished by the analysis offered in these essays.

So we see the changing sexual mores, epitomised by Hugh Hefner and his Playboy magazine, and extrapolated by its imitators like Penthouse. While the changing tastes in architecture and furniture are created and driven by Fuller, Eames and others. Much else is covered in the book. Mostly of the experiences of the middle and upper classes of American society. With relatively little coverage of the poverty and racial discrimination of the times.

A Soldier in the Cockpit: From Rifles to Typhoons in WWII (Stackpole Military History)

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A Soldier in the Cockpit: From Rifles to Typhoons in WWII (Stackpole Military History)
Ron Pottinger
Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
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The Savage Sky: Life and Death in a Bomber over Germany in 1944 (Stackpole Military History)
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Colossal Cracks: Montgomery's 21st Army Group in Northwest Europe, 1944-45 (Stackpole Military History)
German Defeat in the East, 1944-45 (Stackpole Military History)

ASIN: 0811733688

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"I could see a carpet of twinkling lights from the ack ack all along the rail sidings which bordered the canal. I dove onto these with my cannons going. Then suddenly, when the attention of all the guns turned on me, I realized how foolhardy I was being. I ran the guns along the row of rail trucks--opened the throttle wide and pulled straight up for the clouds--with tracers crossing in front and on all sides of the plane."

Ron Pottinger started the war as a rifleman in the Royal Fusiliers, then transferred to the Royal Air Force, where he began flying the 7.5-ton Hawker Typhoon. He flew dozens of dangerous ground attack missions over occupied Europe through bad weather, heavy flak, and enemy fighters before being shot down and taken prisoner.

The World of Flying: A View from the Cockpit

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The World of Flying: A View from the Cockpit
Warren Crowder
Manufacturer: Writers Club Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0595094872

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The World of Flying is an anthology of stories experienced during the author’s 27 years of flying. It contains some of the most exciting incidents that happened during those years. Some of them were life threatening, others will bring you a smile. The book will take the reader through the early years of training, the Constellation years and fifteen years of the jet age with the Boeing 707. The stories will transport you to the Heavens and you will be able to envision yourself "Reaching out and touching the Angels", as they swoop and soar among the clouds.

A Luftwaffe Bomber Pilot Remembers: World War Two from the Cockpit (Schiffer Military History)

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Why, Klaus, why?

A Luftwaffe Bomber Pilot Remembers: World War Two from the Cockpit (Schiffer Military History)
Klaus Haberlen
Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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Binding: Hardcover

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Why, Klaus, why?.......2005-08-27

The value of this book is the same as any memoir. Mr. Haberlen tells his story and in so doing gives us a valuable glimpse into the mindset of a German military man during World War II. Unfortunately, Klaus is the Teutonic version of an Unreconstructed Southerner, at one point opining that Hitler was really no worse than FDR. Yes, it is an interesting book, but you must beware that several disturbing conclusions such as the one just mentioned are scattered about the book. What is truly good about the book is too often obscured by the sick feeling the worst of it gives you.

LIGHTNING FROM THE COCKPIT: Flying the Supersonic Legend

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LIGHTNING FROM THE COCKPIT: Flying the Supersonic Legend
Peter Caygill
Manufacturer: Pen and Sword
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Binding: Paperback

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The English Electric Lightning was the only single-seat supersonic interceptor fighter designed and manufactured in the UK. It saw service with the RAF in the sixties and seventies and gained a worthy reputation for its speed ( in excess of Mach 2 ) and phenomenal rate of climb. It was, however, a not entirely reliable airplane and over fifty were lost during its operational career. In this book, the author has gathered together 16 personal accounts of what it was like to fly the Lightning, thrilling stories that convey the immense brute power of the machine and also it's many pitfalls. It will enthrall the enormous following the aircraft still enjoys. Two are now flying in South Africa and four are being restored to flight-worthy condition in the UK. To see a Lightning take off and climb vertically until it vanishes into the sky is one of the most spectacular sights in aviation.

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Vietnam: Combat from the cockpit
Robert F Dorr
Manufacturer: Motorbooks International
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ASIN: 0879383348

The Spanish Cockpit: An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War

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A Thoughtful Response to the Spanish Tragedy
George Orwell's opinion
Travels in Republican Spain.

The Spanish Cockpit: An Eyewitness Account of the Spanish Civil War
Franz Borkenau
Manufacturer: Phoenix Press
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ASIN: 1842120069

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"...not only a model of what the study of revolution should be, but one of the best books ever published on Spain."--Gerald Brenan. "Borkenau went to see the Spanish Civil War with his own eyes and consulted nobody but his own integrity when he wrote what he saw."--Dame Rebecca West.

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A Thoughtful Response to the Spanish Tragedy.......2007-03-26

Franz Borkenau's book titled THE SPANISH COCKPIT is a careful study of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Borkenau's book examines two years of this war (1936-1937),and Borkenau is clear that this book is not a comprehensive study of the entire war. Borkenau is also clear that he was only able to examine the "Republican" side and not the side of Franco's Philangists.

Borkenau stated that he was sympathetic to the "leftest" during the Spanish Civil War. Yet, his account is an honest attempt to examine the Republican side and present their successes, excesses and failures. Borkenau gives a surprising detailed account of the "leftest" opposition in 1936 when many of the lower classes rebelled against the army insurrection to topple the Spanish Republic. This rebellion led to the emergence of various political "leftest" parties who in their opposition to Philangists, also opposed each other.

Borkenau cites the Spanish Anarchists who showed remarkable courage. But Borkenau also documents their poltical, excesses, cruelty, and massacres. He makes the arguement that the Spanish Anarchists may have been their own worst enemy. Their massacres of opponents including Catholic clergy caused other Spaniards to fear the Anarchists. The looting and burning of Catholic churches plus their executions of land owners and businessmen antagonized too many people. Sometimes an uncontrolled zealot is the enemy's best briend.

Borkenau also discusses the chaotic military situation. What surprised this writer is Borkenau's knowledge of "military science." He cites examples of courage as well as chaotic lack of organization. For example, Borkenau is clear that at times the Anarchists showed courage while at other times they unnecessarily retreated and showed cowardice.

Borkenau gives the Soviet Communists and Spanish Communists credit for saving the Republican Government in Spain. The Anarchists were too disorganzied and resented. The Soviet Communists provided the arms and political unity necessary to stand up to Franco's Phalangists. Borkenau is clear that the Spanish and Soviet Communists undermined and eventually purged the Anarthists.

What may surprise readers is that there were times that the foreign supporters of the Spanish Republic were resented by their comrades. One should note that Franco's Phalantists also resented their German and Italian comrades. The Spanish may have considered their civil war as a family affair and dispute. Borkenau was obviously not sure who would win the Spanish Civil, but did offer some reasons why the Spanish Republicans did lose. The Spanish Republicans and their "leftest" supporters were not united, and the purges within the ranks of the "leftists demonstrated such disunity.

Borkenau also makes a case that attacks on the Catholic Church were useless and counterproductive. The Spanish Catholic Church was corrupt and lost support of many Spanish. However, as Borkenau notes, where the Catholic clergy took their vocations seriously and helped the people, the Catholic Church was strong. Considering that many Spanish were Catholic if in name only, purges and executions of the Catholic clergy may have cost the Republican Government valuable support.

Borkenau's book is similiary to Orwell's HOMAGE TO CATALONIA. Both writers had a good understanding of the political problems of the "leftests," and readers have better insight to the Spanish Civil War.
Borkenau hints that all Franco had to do was to wait for the opponents to exhaust their efforts in fighting each other making his victory easier.
Both Borkenau and Orwell left Spain with respect for the Spanish people. They also respected the independent spirit of the Spanish who basically wanted to be left alone. The Spanish were not interested in being ruled by managers, industrialists, etc. and were just as suspicious of these "progressive" forces as they were of big landowners.

On pages 299-300, Borkenau states that the Spanish valued beauty, love, honor, and friendship which were more important than efficiency that mechinization promised. In other words, historians and journalists were unable to give a clear picture because of preconceived notions of what Spain should be rather than what Spain is.

George Orwell's opinion.......2005-04-28

That George Orwell recommended this book speaks for itself. In a letter dated August 1, 1937, still energized and deeply emotionally involved in the situation after his stint in the POUM militia, he wrote -

"...I was lucky enough to get out of Spain, but many of my friends and acquaintances are still in jail and I am afraid there is the greatest fear that some of them will be shot, not for any definite offence but for opposition to the Communist Party. If you want to keep in touch with Spanish affairs, the only paper you can more or less rely on [to] tell the truth is the New Leader. Or if you come across it read an excellent book that appeared recently called 'The Spanish Cockpit' by Franz Borkenau."

Travels in Republican Spain........2004-04-04

For those who have trouble with understanding the political divisions in Republican Spain, this is a great book. One can then understand the Republicans, Anarchists, POUM, Communists, and the Catalan parties because of Borkenau writings. For the vast majority of the general population, this read is very difficult. In addition, factor in Borkenau's leftist leanings, and you have a justification of all the attrocities of the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. During that time, if you were a priest, factory owner or manager, or a significant landowner, the penalty was a firing squad. The author wants to impart on his readership that it was right to execute these people as well as tell how bad Franco's side was. My viewpoint was that neither side were angels, and one was as bad as the other. Only at the end when Borkenau was arrested by the Republican police did he start writing about the terrorism of the state. He should have been writing about it when the various political parties ransacked the churches and killed the priests. At least Franco did not pretend to be what he was not.

I would not recommend this book to the average reader. It is a difficult read with all the political discourse. I did learn a lot about the various political divisions in Republican Spain and in this case, the book was informative.

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From the Cockpit: Harrier Gr3
Michael Shaw
Manufacturer: Howell Press Inc.
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ASIN: 0711017751

A view from the cockpit;: Winning the America's cup,

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A view from the cockpit;: Winning the America's cup,
Robert Newton Bavier
Manufacturer: Dodd, Mead
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ASIN: B0007EA2DE

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