If you order this along with other items, your entire order will be held and despatched when complete. Usually despatched in 3 to 10 working days. Miller takes readers from the adrenaline filled battles in the sky, to the airbases across England, the German prison camps, and onto the ground to understand the devastation faced by civilians.ĭrawn from interviews, oral histories, and American, British and German archives, Masters of the Air is the authoritative, deeply moving and important account of the world's first and only bomber war.Ĭurrently not in stock but due shortly. Full Book Name:Masters of the Air: America’s Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany Author Name:Donald L. But they were also an elite group of fighters who put their lives on the line in the most dangerous role of all. Unlike ground soldiers they slept on clean beds, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the swing music of the travelling Air Force bands. Miller is the John Henry MacCracken Professor of History Emeritus at Lafayette College and author of ten books, including Vicksburg, and Masters of the Air, currently being made into a television series by Tom Hanks.

Historian and World War II expert Donald Miller brings us the story of the bomber boys who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep.

Meet the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force, Britain's Lancaster comrades, who helped to bring down the Nazis 'Seconds after Brady's plane was hit, the Hundredth's entire formation was broken up and scattered by swarms of single-engine planes, and by rockets launched by twin-engine planes that flew parallel' Masters of the Air: How The Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine

Masters of the Air by Donald L. Miller