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Masters of the Air
- America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
- De: Donald L. Miller
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 25 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,235
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,986
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,982
This is the dramatic story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler’s doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, this is a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden. Fighting at twenty-five thousand feet in thin, freezing air no warriors had encountered before, bomber crews battled new kinds of assaults on body and mind. Air combat was deadly but intermittent: periods of inactivity and anxiety were followed by short bursts of fire and fear.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Facts and Emotions Masterfully Combined
- De Olaf en 01-05-12
- Masters of the Air
- America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany
- De: Donald L. Miller
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
An Important Book,
Revisado: 07-14-21
Masters Of The Air is an outstanding chronicle of war history, centered on a type of combat that was necessary for the time, but one that will, most likely, never repeat itself. It is an essential tome for any student of World War II history, especially those with an interest in the creation of the United States Air Force into the fighting force that it is today.
Beginning with the rise of American bomber theory going back to the days of William Mitchell and the Bomber Mafia, and the initial victories of the Luftwaffe against most of Europe, the book takes the reader through the early challenges of new bomber commanders as they conducted operations against the Reich from bases carved out of picturesque England, into an unforgiving battlefield thousands of feet above the Earth. They not only fought a determined and well-trained enemy, but they braved nightmarish conditions that tested every facet of human endurance- with Allied leadership increasingly aware of the fact that most airmen had a 1 in 5 chance of living through the entire air campaign.
The book paints a vivid portrait of people from all walks of life, from the Mustang pilots who helped turn the tide of the air war, B-17 crews having parachuted into hostile territory- only to spend the rest of the war in prison camps, to the English citizens of cities whose lives were irrevocably affected by the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, as well as several high-ranking Germans who managed to put up such a resistance against the Allied forces, that even senior American officials were skeptical of their chances of crushing the Nazi advance on their terms...
It's one of the greatest books about warfare ever written. You won't regret this experience.
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Warnings Unheeded
- Twin Tragedies at Fairchild Air Force Base
- De: Andy Brown
- Narrado por: Michael F. Cochrane
- Duración: 11 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 165
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 146
On 20 June 1994, a gunman opened fire on the patrons and staff of the Fairchild Air Force Base hospital. Four days later, a B-52 bomber with four souls onboard went down in a fiery crash. Hundreds of ordinary men and women experienced the tragedies...countless others had struggled to prevent them. Everyone who met the would-be gunman thought he was odd, but the disturbed airman struck fear in those who knew him. Doctors had him committed to a military psychiatric ward, only to watch him slip through the cracks of a broken system.
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My review of Warnings Unheeded by Ssgt Andy Brown
- De Brendon Smart en 01-14-18
- Warnings Unheeded
- Twin Tragedies at Fairchild Air Force Base
- De: Andy Brown
- Narrado por: Michael F. Cochrane
A Book More People Should Be Reading...
Revisado: 06-04-21
Andy Brown's "Warnings Unheeded" is one of those rare books that have just as strong a message nowadays, as they did when they were originally published.
The book chronicles two tragedies at Fairchild Air Force Base within 2 weeks of each other in June of 1994: one a mass shooting at a Base Hospital perpetrated by a mentally deranged individual who managed to manipulate the medical system established within the military at the time to keep him enlisted; the other, a crash of a B-52 Stratofortress heavy-bomber (callsign, Czar-52) during a rehearsal flight the day before the annual Fairchild Air Show, the pilot of which being a chronically reckless individual who never resisted the urge to push the boundaries of the aircraft he flew- regardless of the wishes and wellbeing of not only his superiors and other higher-ups, but that of the fellow airmen flying alongside him. The failure of authorities to adequately prevent these losses of human life is hard to fathom, but from another point of view, were just results of a system of accountability that failed every man and woman on that base, up to, and including, the men who caused the incidents in question.
Brown's account of events is unique, him having been the person who successfully stopped the shooter before he could continue his rampage further. He lays down precisely what led to these two events, in maddening, brutal details, that will cause readers to question aloud why the leadership of a military installation failed to step in, when both of these individuals displayed serious signs of both mental instability and careless abandon for human life. At the same time, they will be answered with reasoning that will only be reminding of a key fault with any man-made system: the fact that they aren't always perfect. Mortal systems, even that of a military nature, never have been, and never will be... unless the process of accountability is upheld at the highest possible standards.
Like I said, this story is relevant. I really wish I read the paperback, there's way more material in the form of official documents, photos and diagrams showing the layout of the locations and where every event took place. It's worth listening to, but I, personally, would've gone with another narrator. That's my only complaint.
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