Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat (Hampton Dan)(Paperback)

Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat (Hampton Dan)(Paperback)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - 'ONE OF THE BEST AIR-COMBAT MEMOIRS OF ALL TIME'* BY 'ONE OF THE MOST DECORATED PILOTS IN AIR FORCE HISTORY'+151 combat missions21 hard kills on surface -to -air missile sites4 Distinguished Flying Crosses with Valor1 Purple HeartFirst into a war zone, flying behind

Inheritance - A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love (Shapiro Dani)(Paperback / softback)

Raise Up Off Me: A Portrait of Hampton Hawes (Hawes Hampton)(Paperback)

Hampton Hawes [1928-1977] was one of jazz's greatest pianists. Among his peers from California the self-taught Hawes was second only to Oscar Peterson. At the time of his celebration as New Star of the Year by downbeat magazine (1956), Hawes was already struggling with a heroin addiction that would

SAS Combat Vehicles 1942-91 (Mortimer Gavin)(Paperback)

A history of the Special Air Service's lightweight, heavily armed vehicles and their combat use, ranging from the famous 1942 airfield raids of North Africa, the SAS Brigade's jeep-borne operations in Europe after D-Day, and 22 SAS's postwar adoption of much-modified Land Rovers for desert

Orphic Paris (Cole Henri)(Paperback)

A poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer and poet Henri Cole. Henri Cole's Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and prose poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an

Long Way Home: Love, Life, Death, and Everything in Between (Jarvis Dan)(Paperback)

A deeply emotional combination of grief memoir and soldier's

Depression - A Public Feeling (Cvetkovich Ann)(Paperback / softback)

In Depression: A Public Feeling, Ann Cvetkovich combines memoir and critical essay in search of ways of writing about depression as a cultural and political phenomenon that offer alternatives to medical models. She describes her own experience of the professional pressures, creative anxiety, and

Spitfire: A Test Pilot's Story (Quill Jeffrey)(Paperback)

This is the story of an exceptional test pilot and RAF and Fleet Air Arm pilot, Jeffrey Quill, who took charge of some of the most important military aircraft of his time. Jeffrey Quill, was commissioned in the RAF in 1931. He joined Vickers Aviation in 1936, and rose to become Chief Test Pilot at

The Best of Chief Dan George (George Chief Dan)(Paperback)

This book combines the two best sellers My Heart Soars & My Spirit Soars in one volume, 63 poems fully illustrated. This book combines the two best sellers My Heart Soars & My Spirit Soars in one volume, eloquently illustrated throughout by Helmut Hirnschall. Included in this edition is the Lament

The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying (Riggs Nina)(Paperback)

* INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Stunning...heartrending...this year's When Breath Becomes Air.' --Nora Krug, The Washington Post 'Beautiful and haunting.' --Matt McCarthy, MD, USA TODAY

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love (Shapiro Dani)(Paperback)

An Instant NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A LOS ANGELES TIMES, BOSTON GLOBE, WALL STREET JOURNAL, and NATIONAL INDIE BESTSELLER Named A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by *Elle * Vanity Fair * Wired * Real Simple * Kirkus Reviews * BookPage * 'Memoir gold: a profound and exquisitely rendered exploration of

Prayers to Broken Stones: Stories (Simmons Dan)(Paperback)

From a ghostly Civil War battlefield to a combat theme park in Vietnam, from the omnipotent brain of an autistic boy to a shocking story of psychic vampires, journey into a world of fear and mystery, a chilling twilight zone of the mind. A woman returns from the dead with disastrous results for the

War In A Stringbag (Lamb Charles)(Paperback / softback)

A classic autobiography by the best known Second World War Fleet Air Arm pilot. A story of real life adventure, action and

Palace Cobra: A Fighter Pilot in the Vietnam Air War (Rasimus Ed)(Paperback)

Rather Outspoken: My Life in the News (Rather Dan)(Paperback)

This memoir by Dan Rather is told in a straightforward and conversational voice, and covers all the important moments of his journalistic career, including a frank accounting of his dismissal from CBS, the Abu Ghraib story, the George W. Bush Air National Guard controversy, new insights on the JFK

Violet the Pilot (Breen Steve)(Paperback)

Violet is a science-loving girl inventor with a flair for the air! Fans of Ada Twist, Scientist and Rosie Revere, Engineer will love this classic underdog story by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Steve Breen. By the time she's two years old, Violet Van Winkle can engineer

Operation Vengeance: The Astonishing Aerial Ambush That Changed World War II (Hampton Dan)(Paperback)

'Operation Vengeance is colorful, intimate, eye-popping history, delivered at a breakneck pace. I loved it.' -Lynn VincentThe New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot delivers an electrifying narrative account of the top-secret U.S. mission to kill Isoroku Yamamoto, the Japanese commander

Hawker Typhoon Ia & Ib - Pilot's Notes (Ministry Air)(Paperback)

A series of books that provide, for the first time, the detailed information every pilot needs to know about the aircraft they are flying. Each book in the series covers all aspects of a popular aircraft type and is illustrated throughout with photographs and

Gliding: From Passenger to Pilot (Longland Steven)(Paperback)

Gliding is for everyone who has ever dreamt of riding the air currents with the view stretching to the horizon, and with barely a sound to disturb the moment. Written by an experienced instructor, this book guides you through the first steps to realizing that dream, and goes on to explore the many

Sick - A Memoir (Khakpour Porochista)(Paperback / softback)

A devastating memoir of chronic illness, misdiagnosis, addiction and the myth of full recovery - already an online phenomenon in the USA in summer

Storm of Steel (Junger Ernst)(Paperback)

The memoir widely viewed as the best account ever written of fighting in WW1 A memoir of astonishing power, savagery, and ashen lyricism, Storm of Steel illuminates not only the horrors but also the fascination of total war, seen through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier. Young, tough,

The Life of Gluckel of Hameln: A Memoir (Abrahams Beth-Zion)(Paperback)

A fascinating memoir of one of Judaism's earliest female writers, translated from the original YiddishGl ckel of Hameln was a marvel of her time: an accomplished businesswoman as well as the mother of twelve. Devastated by the death of her beloved husband in 1689, she proceeded to write the

Out of Egypt: A Memoir (Aciman Andr)(Paperback)

This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, Andre Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life--Uncle Vili, the

When Memory Comes: The Classic Memoir (Friedlnder Saul)(Paperback)

A classic of Holocaust literature, the eloquent, acclaimed memoir of childhood by a Pulitzer-winning historian, now reissued with a new introduction by Claire Messud Four months before Hitler came to power, Saul Friedl nder was born in Prague to a middle-class Jewish family. In 1939,