Name: Tempting Fate: Hobey Baker and Robert Stiles Face The Red Baron's Flying Circus (en Inglés)
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Author: Glimcher, Sumner Jules ; Rappleye, Timothy ; Greeley, Richard Stiles
ISBN: 9781499649598

portada Tempting Fate: Hobey Baker and Robert Stiles Face The Red Baron's Flying Circus (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Richard Stiles Greeley

Contribuciones de

Sumner Jules Glimcher

Timothy Rappleye

Editorial

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

25.4 x 20.3 x 1.6 cm

Peso

0.49 kg.

ISBN13

9781499649598

Categorías

Historia de la humanidad

Tempting Fate: Hobey Baker and Robert Stiles Face The Red Baron's Flying Circus (en Inglés)

Richard Stiles Greeley (Autor) · Sumner Jules Glimcher (Contribuciones de) · Timothy Rappleye (Contribuciones de) · Createspace Independent Publishing Platform · Tapa Blanda

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"Tempting Fate- Hobey Baker and Robert Stiles face the Red Baron's Flying Circus" includes selections from Hobey's letters home and Robert's complete diary about their experiences in mortal combat with the "Bosch" (the Germans) as flyers during World War One. The full text of Hobey's 166 letters are provided in an appendix. The diary and letters are chilling to read as the two authors write each evening following two or three two-hour patrols over the front lines. The American pilots had to contend not only with the more experienced Germans, but with frail aircraft which frequently suffer serious malfunctions. The ammunition in the machine guns they used would frequently jamb just when they were shooting at an enemy plane. The diary entries and letters reflect the excitement, the danger, the courage and the passion that these two intrepid flyers experienced in essentially real time along with their often humdrum existence at the airfield. Furthermore, the Germans frequently bombed the airfield at night, depriving the Americans their much-needed sleep. We, the readers, now can share with their families and friends these harrowing episodes in these two heroes' lives.