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War in the Air: True Accounts of the 20th Century's Most Dramatic Air Battles--By the Men Who Fought Them

America's foremost writer of aviation fiction (Flight of the Intruder, Under Siege; The Red Horseman) presents 26 of the most dramatictrue stories ever told of men in aerial combat from World War I to Vietnam.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 331 pages

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