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The Antoine De Saint-Exupery Collection (The Little Prince / Airman's Odyssey)

1 review
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Quality Paperback Book Club, 2007

typos in the best book ever?
I'm aghast that the best story every could be published with spelling errors. Don't buy this edition unless your blood pressure is normally too low and would like to see it higher.

An Airman's Odyssey: Walt Braznell and the Pilots He Led into the Jet Age

3 reviews
William Braznell

University of Missouri Press, 2001

A fascinating history with wide appeal
The combination of this book's lucid prose with its fascinating photos, drawings, technical information, newspaper accounts, and personal stories make for a compelling history of early American aviation. The stories of the legendary as well as the unsung pioneers are full of adventure and more than a little humor. Walt Braznell's own life and career are models of an American Dream, and the ...

Guests of the unspeakable: The odyssey of an Australian airman - being a record of captivity and escape in ...

1 review
T. W White

Angus and Robertson, 1935

Early aviation pioneer-then prisoner of war
T.W. White was one of the first Airmen involved in the Mesopotomian Campaign in WWI. An Australian--he and some of his comrades were the first to answer the call for providing aerial support to the ground offensive in Mesopotamia. However, his tour of duty was cut short after being captured in a daring behind the lines effort. The majority of the book centers on his captivity and eventual ...

Airman's Odyssey

2 reviews
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Harcourt, 1943

A great book for anyone to share with friends.
I was exposed to St. Ex in the ninth grade by my French teacher. He had us read the "Little Prince". My dream was to be a pilot and I could relate to the story. Going through college I read other books by St. Ex. and have been a fan ever since. I am a pilot and his writing touch the heart and soul of the reader. Both from physical experience and from spiritual wanderings. One could call ...

An Airman's Odyssey
C. Alan Foreman

AuthorHouse, 2005

An Airman's Odyssey tells the World War II experience of Staff Sergeant Charles R. Batdorf. At the start of the war, Batdorf was just an eighteen-year old kid from rural Pennsylvania. However, like many other young men in America during the initial months of the war, he didn't wait for his country to call-he volunteered for military service. Yearning to serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps and eager to see combat, he requested duty as an aerial ...