Author: Benedict Yedlin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780967533322
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Brother Men Who Fly: A WWII gunner's personal quest is a two-part reflection on the human experience before, and after the air war over Europe at the height of the Second World War. The first half is drawn from Yedlin's memories and those of his crew. The second half is the result of his quest, over fifty years later, to find out what happened to The Buzzer. The plan was believed to have disappeared in the Bay of Naples on December 9, 1944, killing everyone on board, but contradictory evidence soon began to emerge as Yedlin sifted through old military records. Eventually, he would trace and make contact with the families or friends of all sixteen men who were on the plane that day, reliving with them the memories that half a century had not erased. The two enmeshed stories are a meditation on the destinies of those who survived and those who did not. The war time experiences recounted by the survivors stayed with them throughout their lives; their stories of emotion, skill, fear and courage serve as a collective eulogy for those who died before having a chance to live their futures.
Brother Men Who Fly
Author: Benedict Yedlin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780967533322
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Brother Men Who Fly: A WWII gunner's personal quest is a two-part reflection on the human experience before, and after the air war over Europe at the height of the Second World War. The first half is drawn from Yedlin's memories and those of his crew. The second half is the result of his quest, over fifty years later, to find out what happened to The Buzzer. The plan was believed to have disappeared in the Bay of Naples on December 9, 1944, killing everyone on board, but contradictory evidence soon began to emerge as Yedlin sifted through old military records. Eventually, he would trace and make contact with the families or friends of all sixteen men who were on the plane that day, reliving with them the memories that half a century had not erased. The two enmeshed stories are a meditation on the destinies of those who survived and those who did not. The war time experiences recounted by the survivors stayed with them throughout their lives; their stories of emotion, skill, fear and courage serve as a collective eulogy for those who died before having a chance to live their futures.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780967533322
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Brother Men Who Fly: A WWII gunner's personal quest is a two-part reflection on the human experience before, and after the air war over Europe at the height of the Second World War. The first half is drawn from Yedlin's memories and those of his crew. The second half is the result of his quest, over fifty years later, to find out what happened to The Buzzer. The plan was believed to have disappeared in the Bay of Naples on December 9, 1944, killing everyone on board, but contradictory evidence soon began to emerge as Yedlin sifted through old military records. Eventually, he would trace and make contact with the families or friends of all sixteen men who were on the plane that day, reliving with them the memories that half a century had not erased. The two enmeshed stories are a meditation on the destinies of those who survived and those who did not. The war time experiences recounted by the survivors stayed with them throughout their lives; their stories of emotion, skill, fear and courage serve as a collective eulogy for those who died before having a chance to live their futures.
Aircraft
Author: United States. President's Aircraft Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 1822
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics, Commercial
Languages : en
Pages : 1822
Book Description
Flying Magazine
To Fly
Author: Wendie C. Old
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618133475
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Traces the work that the two Wright brothers did together to develop the first machine-powered aircraft.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618133475
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Traces the work that the two Wright brothers did together to develop the first machine-powered aircraft.
Three Crawford Brothers
Author: George Wolf Crawford
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438904576
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1438904576
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Wright Brothers
Author: Mary Tucker
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
ISBN: 1573103535
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Creative activities, games, action rhymes, songs, a skit and more involve students in discovering for themselves how the Wright Brothers dreamed of man in flight and worked diligently to bring their dreams to life
Publisher: Lorenz Educational Press
ISBN: 1573103535
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Creative activities, games, action rhymes, songs, a skit and more involve students in discovering for themselves how the Wright Brothers dreamed of man in flight and worked diligently to bring their dreams to life
A River Runs through It and Other Stories
Author: Norman MacLean
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022647223X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture—for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art—A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean’s own words, “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.” “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” —New York Times Book Review Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022647223X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture—for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art—A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean’s own words, “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.” “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” —New York Times Book Review Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation
Fly
SILENT KNIGHT
Author: Tori Phillips
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459275527
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
SIR GUY HAD THE FACE OF AN ARCHANGEL Yet his vow of silence and monkish cowl hid thoughts that would make the devil blush! For the innocent beauty of Celeste de Montcalm was a temptation that he could scarcely resist. But was his urge to protect her from the evil lord to whom she was promised an honorable one, or just an excuse to claim the lady as his own?
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1459275527
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
SIR GUY HAD THE FACE OF AN ARCHANGEL Yet his vow of silence and monkish cowl hid thoughts that would make the devil blush! For the innocent beauty of Celeste de Montcalm was a temptation that he could scarcely resist. But was his urge to protect her from the evil lord to whom she was promised an honorable one, or just an excuse to claim the lady as his own?
The Wright Brothers
Author: Tara Dixon-Engel
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402732317
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A biography of the Wright brothers, who became famous as the inventors of the airplane.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781402732317
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
A biography of the Wright brothers, who became famous as the inventors of the airplane.