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03688aim a2200421 i 4500 001 917E10BE223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240604012727 006 m dq h 007 cs nzannnauuuu 007 sz zunznnnzneu 008 231113r2023uuuuohunnnn q h n eng d 020 $a 9798212985666 028 01 $a 45405 $b Playaway Products 035 $a (OCoLC)1413731354 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Miller, Donald L., $d 1944- $e author. 245 10 $a Masters of the air : $b America's bomber boys who fought the air war against Nazi Germany / $c Donald L. Miller. 250 $a Update edition. 264 1 $a Solon, Ohio : $b Playaway Products, LLC, $c [2023] 300 $a 1 audio media player (24:19:19) : $b digital, HD audio ; $c 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. 500 $a Release date supplied by publisher. 500 $a Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. 500 $a One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening. 500 $a Previously released by Blackstone Audio. 511 0 $a Read by Joe Barrett. 520 $a Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes you on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people. Fighting at 25,000 feet in thin, freezing air that no warriors had ever 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. Unlike infantrymen, bomber boys slept on clean sheets, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the swing music of Glenn Miller's Air Force band, which toured US air bases in England. But they had a much greater chance of dying than ground soldiers. The bomber crews were an elite group of warriors who were a microcosm of America--white America, anyway. The actor Jimmy Stewart was a bomber boy, and so was the "King of Hollywood," Clark Gable. And the air war was filmed by Oscar-winning director William Wyler and covered by reporters like Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite, all of whom flew combat missions with the men. The Anglo-American bombing campaign against Nazi Germany was the longest military campaign of World War II, a war within a war. Until Allied soldiers crossed into Germany in the final months of the war, it was the only battle fought inside the German homeland. Masters of the Air is a story of life in wartime England and in the German prison camps, where tens of thousands of airmen spent part of the war. It ends with a vivid description of the grisly hunger marches captured airmen were forced to make near the end of the war through the country their bombs destroyed. Drawn from recent interviews, oral histories, and American, British, German, and other archives, Masters of the Air is an authoritative, deeply moving account of the world's first and only bomber war. 610 10 $a United States. $b Air Force, 8th $b Air Force, 8th $x History. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Aerial operations, American. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Western Front. 650 0 $a Bomber pilots $z United States $v Biography. 655 7 $a Audiobooks. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Barrett, Joe, $d 1950- $e narrator. 710 2 $a Playaway Digital Audio, $e issuing body. 710 2 $a Playaway Products, LLC, $e issuing body. 941 $a 1 952 $l CBPF522 $d 20240604014318.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=917E10BE223B11EF96E545AA58ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search