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Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator.

Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator.

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Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator.

by Hynes, Samuel

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9780747503330
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London.: Bloomsbury., 1988. 270pp. DW is in a clear removable plastic sleeve.. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Samuel Hynes served as a consultant on "The War", directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and appears on camera in several episodes. "The War" is a seven-part, 14-hour documentary series that debuts on PBS on Sunday, September 23, 2007. Sam Hynes was eighteen when he left his Minnesota home for navy flight school in 1943. By the time the war ended he was a veteran Marine pilot, still not quite twenty-one, and had flown more than a hundred missions in the Pacific theater. In this eloquent narrative, by turns dramatic, funny, and elegiac, Hynes recalls those extraordinary years during which he came of age. he makes real the places—the training fields and the liberty towns and the Pacific islands, and the people—the other young pilots, the girls and the young wives, even the enemy pilots. He remembers friendship, and the excitement and tedium of war, the high exhilaration of flying, and the dying. More than a tale of combat, Flight of Passage is a story of one boy's growth to manhood in the turbulent, testing world of war in the air.

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Bookseller
N. G. Lawrie Books. GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
49467
Title
Flights of Passage: Reflections of a World War II Aviator.
Author
Hynes, Samuel
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good+
Jacket Condition
Very Good+
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0747503338
ISBN 13
9780747503330
Publisher
Bloomsbury.
Place of Publication
London.
Date Published
1988
Keywords
US United States Air Force Pilots Memoirs Second World War Two II 2 History Aviation.
Bookseller catalogs
Military and Naval History;
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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