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Heroes All: Airmen of Different Nationalities Tell Their Stories of Service in the Second World War Kindle Edition
Aviation historian Steve Bond has spent years interviewing veterans of World War II. He recorded the stories of former airmen and crewmembers who shared the same pieces of sky at the same time. The project brought together British and German, German and Russian, British and Italian, American and German—sometimes literally.
In Heroes All, Bond presents the stories of these veterans—some of whom are household names—with annotations and overviews providing historical context. This is not a book about the rights and wrongs of war, nor the strategies of the military commanders. It is about the experiences and feelings of those on the front line.
This volume includes stories and recollections from veterans of the Air Transport Auxiliary, British Army, Fleet Air Arm, Italian air force, Luftwaffe, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and Navy, Soviet air force, US Army, US Army Air Force, US Navy, and other groupings.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGrub Street Publishing
- Publication dateOctober 19, 2010
- File size10653 KB
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- ASIN : B005ZUV9IW
- Publisher : Grub Street Publishing (October 19, 2010)
- Publication date : October 19, 2010
- Language : English
- File size : 10653 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 617 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #3,079,222 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #671 in Biographies of the Military Navy
- #760 in 20th Century Canadian History
- #764 in Canadian Military History
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The men featured in the book served with the USAAF, USN, RAF, RCAF, Luftwaffe, FAA, Italian Air Force, ATA, etc. Some flew Spits, CR-32s, La 5s, P-40s, P-51s, Halifaxes, C-47s and so on; others serviced and maintained them. Their stories are divided into broad categories/chapters entitled 'Enlistment,' 'Training Days,' 'Defence - The Fighters,' 'Defence - The Bombers,' 'The Lonely Sea,' 'The Eastern Front,' 'Transports' and so on. The reminiscences, which range from a few sentences to several pages in length, are interwoven with Bond's narrative that provides background material.
Most of the men found in HEROES ALL aren't household names. In that sense, Bond's book is especially valuable for it presents the war as experienced by the 'common airman.' The stories relate the excitement, boredom, tragedy and happiness these men went through. Several accounts were especially noteworthy since they feature airmen who took part in the same air battles comparing their own experiences with those of their former foes and commenting on the other's memories.
All in all, HEROES ALL is a fascinating, broadbased account of the air war in the words of the brave young men who served in that war. Recommended.