Fighting the Flying Circus, by Eddie Rickenbacker
From the explanation above, it is clear that you have to read this e-book Fighting The Flying Circus, By Eddie Rickenbacker We supply the on the internet e-book qualified Fighting The Flying Circus, By Eddie Rickenbacker here by clicking the link download. From shared book by on the internet, you could offer more perks for lots of people. Besides, the readers will be also easily to get the preferred publication Fighting The Flying Circus, By Eddie Rickenbacker to review. Find one of the most preferred as well as needed book Fighting The Flying Circus, By Eddie Rickenbacker to review now and also below.
Fighting the Flying Circus, by Eddie Rickenbacker
Free PDF Ebook Online Fighting the Flying Circus, by Eddie Rickenbacker
Eddie Rickenbacker was America's greatest fighter ace during World War I, an era when airplane technology was brand new and aerial warfare was unprecedented. This is his memoir about fighting in the air during the war.
Fighting the Flying Circus, by Eddie Rickenbacker- Amazon Sales Rank: #825434 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-27
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .56" w x 6.00" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 246 pages
Review "John Pruden . . . happens to have one of those golden voices. . . . This was a fascinating book. . . . I always thought Eddie Rickenbacker was larger than life. This combat diary added an unexpected touch of humility to him. I highly recommend this book to any reader interested in the history of the United States Air Force." ---Major Joel Rudy, USAF
About the Author Eddie V. Rickenbacker (1890-1973) was an American fighter ace in World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient.John Pruden is a professional voice actor who records audiobooks, corporate and online training narrations, animation and video game characters, and radio and TV commercials. An AudioFile Earphones Award winner, John has a solid creative foundation from which to draw for his intelligent audiobook narrations.
Where to Download Fighting the Flying Circus, by Eddie Rickenbacker
Most helpful customer reviews
33 of 33 people found the following review helpful. The classic account of WWI aerial combat By A Customer Eddie Rickenbacker was, of course, the top-scoring American ace of the First World War, shooting down 26 enemy aircraft. This hard-to-find book is _the_ classic account of aerial combat in World War One. It fairly breathes the cocky, pugnacious spirit of the successful combat aviator, and is, in itself, a remarkable survival story. Rickenbacker was a squadron leader of note as well as a formidable single-combat warrior, and his observations on command are applicable today. Like other great aviators who racked up impressive victories but survived, Rickenbacker was aggressive and confident but not rash. He took pains to plan his missions and to assure their success, attending to the smallest details himself (even to inspecting the individual rounds loaded for his SPAD's machine guns). Rickenbacker is a skillful narrator, and his precise description of the lethal ballet of aerial combat is readable and comprehensible for the flyer and non-flyer alike. Rickenbacker had the reputation of being overbearing at times, but this is not communicated in his writing. Indeed, one of the most memorable passages in this book describes his repeated but ultimately unsuccessful attempts to bring down a particular German observation plane. This is a wonderful book that deserves to be read. Any reader with an interest in flying, but especially combat flying, can do no better than to pick up this excellent work.
29 of 30 people found the following review helpful. loved it as a kid, even better as an adult By reader from maryland Rickenbacker's adventures, told in Rickenbacker's own words. This story is the definitive acount of WWI air combat. The only books that come close are by British pilot Arch Whitehouse, but those lack the descriptions and heart of Eddie Rickenbacker's "Fighting the Flying Circus". One can almost smell the dirt and grass from the runways and see the tracer fire from the machine guns. Throughout we see the character of a simple midwestern man who became the Ace of Aces in American flying history. The individual flying episodes are memorable such as the time he refused to let an (allied) French Nieuport get behind him after he became lost on patrol. He later found out that a German pilot in a captured Neiuport was slipping across the lines to wreck havoc on the Allies. Or the time an anti-aircraft shell lodged in his engine yet failed to detonate. The story is vivid and thrilling until the end, even though we all know the larger outcome.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Rickenbacker Just Back from France! By W. G. Todd I read this years ago while Rickenbacker still lived. This race car driver turned fighter pilot wrote this he was still a young man just back from the first air war in 1919. In reading it again as an adult I was surprised to find that he was quite honest and self efacing. When he made a mistake he was forthcoming about it. In many incidents contained in this book it is obvious that luck played an enormous part in survival of pilots in those days, as the training and equipment by today's standards was to put it bluntly, inadequate. I imagine that this book is still a good one for fighter jocks of today because there are still lessons here that apply to today's combat environment. It is always easier to learn from someone else's experiences than to repeat them yourself. If you want to learn what it was like to fight in the air in the First World War this is your book. It is on a par with James McCudden's book "Flying Fury," and that is high praise indeed.Since reading this book I have read Rickenbacker's autobiography and was not nearly as impressed as I was with this book. By the 1960's Rickenbacker had mellowed and his words were carefully chosen and not nearly as spontaneous as in this book. After all, by then he had been a CEO of Eastern Airlines, and seemed more guarded about his reputation.The Kindle price of this fine book works for me!
See all 107 customer reviews... Fighting the Flying Circus, by Eddie RickenbackerFighting the Flying Circus, by Eddie Rickenbacker PDF
Fighting the Flying Circus, by Eddie Rickenbacker iBooks
Fighting the Flying Circus, by Eddie Rickenbacker ePub
Fighting the Flying Circus, by Eddie Rickenbacker rtf
Fighting the Flying Circus, by Eddie Rickenbacker AZW
Fighting the Flying Circus, by Eddie Rickenbacker Kindle
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar