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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorSeven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph
T.E. Lawrence · 714 pages
Lords of the Sky: Fighter Pilots and Air Combat, from the Red Baron to the F-16
Dan Hampton · 623 pages
"The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot and retired USAF F-16 legend Dan Hampton offers the first comprehensive popular history of combat aviation--a unique, entertaining, and action-packed look at the aces of the air and their machines, from the Red Baron and his triplane in World War I to today's technologically expert flying warriors in supersonic jets."--
Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900 - 1925
Vera Brittain · 661 pages
A vivid and passionate record of the years 1900 to 1925, this is Vera Brittain's haunting autobiography - a portrait of a young girl's life in prewar England and a heartbreaking document of the holocaust of war. The author tells us about the war she saw and poignantly describes how it was to watch the gradual destruction of her generation. Raised in provincial comfort during a gentle age, Britt
Samurai!
Saburo Sakai · 382 pages
Saburo Sakai was Japan's greatest fighter pilot to survive World War II. A veteran of more than two hundred dogfights, Sakai reportedly shot down sixty-four Allied planes, but he is best known for flying his crippled Zero nearly 600 miles to safety while partially paralyzed and nearly blind from multiple wounds.
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Gregory Boyington · 384 pages
The author's experiences in the United States Air Force during the 1939-1945 War.
Spitfire Pilot: A Personal Account of the Battle of Britain
David M. Crook, Richard Overy · 191 pages
Spitfire!: The Experiences of a Battle of Britain Fighter Pilot
Brian Lane · 255 pages
First Light
Geoffrey Wellum · 352 pages
"Geoffry Wellum tells the ... true story of his coming of age amid the roaring, tumbling dogfights of the fiercest air war the world has ever seen. It is the story of an idealistic schoolboy who couldn't believe his luck when the RAF agreed to take him on as a 'pupil pilot' at the minimum age of seventeen and a half in 1939. In his fervor to fly, he gave little thought to the coming war"--Jacket.
Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
Robin Olds, Ed Rasimus, Christina Olds · 400 pages
A biography of top fighter pilot and squadron commander Robin Olds--who arrived in Vietnam in 1966 to find a dejected group of pilots and motivated them by placing himself on the flight schedule under officers junior to himself, then challenging them to train him properly because he would soon be leading them.
GUTS 'N GUNSHIPS: What it was Really Like to Fly Combat Helicopters in Vietnam
Mark Garrison · 282 pages
I Could Never Be So Lucky Again
James Doolittle, Carroll V. Glines · 560 pages
Yeager: An Autobiography
Chuck Yeager, Leo Janos · 388 pages
Offers a personal glimpse of air pilot General Chuck Yeager. Yeager talks about his life and achievements, expressed in his own words.
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
Ted W. Lawson · 203 pages
This is a first-hand account of the Doolitle raid over Tokyo in 1942- the secret preparations, the raid itself and the almost unbelievable adventures of the airmen in the weeks that followed.
A Storm in Flanders: The Ypres Salient, 1914-1918: Tragedy and Triumph on the Western Front
Winston Groom · 276 pages
"The Ypres Salient in Belgian Flanders was the most notorious and dreaded place in all of World War I - probably of any war in history. It was said that you could smell the battlefield miles before you reached it - a fetid odor of death. It was where the poppies grew in Flanders Fields while a million men lived like animals in slimy underground trenches and from 1914 to 1918 slaughtered one anothe
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919
Mark Thompson · 454 pages
This is the story of the First World War in Italy, a war that gave birth to fascism. Mussolini fought in these trenches, as did most of his collaborators. But so did many of the greatest modernist writers in Italian and German - Ungaretti, Gadda, Musil.
Going Solo
Roald Dahl · 209 pages
The fascinating story of Roald Dahl's life continues in Going Solo, a marvelous evocation of the author's wartime exploits. As a pilot in World War II, Roald Dahl had some wonderfully exciting -- and frighteningly near-death -- experiences including encounters with the enemy, battles with deadly snakes, and incredible dogfights. Told with the same irresistible appeal that has made Dahl one of the
A Soldier on the Southern Front: The Classic Italian Memoir of World War 1
Emilio Lussu · 278 pages
A rediscovered Italian masterpiece chronicling the author's experience as an infantryman, newly translated and reissued to commemorate the centennial of World War I. Taking its place alongside works by Ernst JŸnger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu's memoir is one of the most affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in Italy but virtually unknown in the
The First Day on the Somme
Martin Middlebrook · 365 pages
"Britain suffered 60,000 casualties during The Battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916. This portrait of war on the front line draws upon official sources, local newspapers, autobiographies, novels, poems, and above all, on the recollections of hundreds of survivors."--Jacket.
Somme Mud
Edward P.F. Lynch · 407 pages
Private Lynch wrote 'Somme Mud' in pencil in twenty school exercise books. It vividly captures the horror and magnitude of the First World War.
Silent Night: The Remarkable Christmas Truce of 1914
Stanley Weintraub · 168 pages
When her husband was diagnosed with leukemia, Catherine Dornan and their two young sons accompanied him to New York, during the Christmas season, for a life-saving operation. Hoping to divert the boys from worry about their father, and to temper her own near despair, on Christmas Eve Catherine takes the boys to see Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree. When they stop to listen to a street mu
A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914 to 1918
G.J. Meyer · 704 pages
The First World War is one of history’s greatest tragedies. In this remarkable and intimate account, author G. J. Meyer draws on exhaustive research to bring to life the story of how the Great War reduced Europe’s mightiest empires to rubble, killed twenty million people, and cracked the foundations of the world we live in today. The First World War is one of history’s greatest tragedies. In th
The Pity of War
Niall Ferguson · 585 pages
In *The Pity of War*, Niall Ferguson explodes the myths of 1914-18. He argues that the fatal conflict between Britain and Germany was far from inevitable. It was Britain's declaration of war that needlessly turned a continental conflict into a world war, and it was Britain's economic mismanagement and military inferiority that necessitated American involvement, forever altering the global balance