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9781493018635 | Lyons Pr, September 1, 2016, cover price $26.95

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Product Description: From Bill Yenne, author of the military histories Big Week and Aces High, comes the stirring true story of the Eighth Air Force in World War II. Barely a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army formed its Eighth Air Force, the first bomber command on either side to commit to strategic daylight bombing, with the goal of defeating the Third Reich from the air...read more

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9780425274170 | New Amer Library, July 7, 2015, cover price $26.95

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9780425274187 | New Amer Library, July 5, 2016, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: From Bill Yenne, author of the military histories Big Week and Aces High, comes the stirring true story of the Eighth Air Force in World War II.

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Product Description: "A riveting...saga of survival against formidable odds" (Washington Post) about one man who survived a World War II plane crash in Alaska's harsh Yukon territoryShortly before Christmas in 1943, five Army aviators left Alaska's Ladd Field on a routine flight to test their hastily retrofitted B-24 Liberator in harsh winter conditions...read more

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9780306823282 | Da Capo Pr, June 2, 2015, cover price $24.99

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9780306824524 | Da Capo Pr, March 1, 2016, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: "A riveting.
9780382280351, titled "Mathematics: Exploring Your World : Grade 5 : Alternative Assessment" | Silver Burdett Ginn Religion, June 1, 1992, cover price $62.50 | also contains Mathematics: Exploring Your World : Grade 5 : Alternative Assessment

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Product Description: If the Wright brothers' 1903 flights in Kitty Hawk marked the birth of aviation, World War I can be called its violent adolescence-a brief but bloody era that completely changed the way planes were designed, fabricated, and flown...read more
By Tom Perkins (narrator)

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9781494558963 | Mp3 una edition (Tantor Media Inc, June 2, 2015), cover price $24.99 | About this edition: If the Wright brothers' 1903 flights in Kitty Hawk marked the birth of aviation, World War I can be called its violent adolescence-a brief but bloody era that completely changed the way planes were designed, fabricated, and flown.
9781494508968 | Unabridged edition (Tantor Media Inc, June 2, 2015), cover price $37.99 | About this edition: If the Wright brothers' 1903 flights in Kitty Hawk marked the birth of aviation, World War I can be called its violent adolescence-a brief but bloody era that completely changed the way planes were designed, fabricated, and flown.

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In 1865 a young Chinese orphan leaves San Francisco to work on the transcontinental railroad and finds himself torn between his people's customs and the ways of the American frontier

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9780385135672, titled "Land of the Iron Dragon" | Doubleday, September 1, 1978, cover price $7.95 | also contains Land of the Iron Dragon | About this edition: A 14-year-old Chinese boy is left without a family in the United States and joins the crews building the transcontinental railroad in the 1860's.

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9781496950772 | Authorhouse, November 10, 2014, cover price $23.95

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9781426211560 | Natl Geographic Society, November 5, 2013, cover price $30.00

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9781426213694 | Natl Geographic Society, September 15, 2015, cover price $15.95

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9781482932164 | Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 5, 2013), cover price $44.95
9781482932171 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 5, 2013), cover price $34.95

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9781499056013 | Xlibris Corp, August 12, 2014, cover price $29.99

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9781499056020 | Xlibris Corp, August 12, 2014, cover price $19.99

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Product Description: The Magical Stranger is a moving story of love and sacrifice, fathers and sons, heroism and duty, soldiers and the families they leave behind.On November 28, 1979, squadron commander and Navy pilot Peter Rodrick died when his plane crashed in the Indian Ocean, leaving behind a devastated wife, two daughters, and a 13-year-old son...read more

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9780062004765 | 1 edition (Harpercollins, May 14, 2013), cover price $27.99 | About this edition: The Magical Stranger is a moving story of love and sacrifice, fathers and sons, heroism and duty, soldiers and the families they leave behind.

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9780062004772 | Reprint edition (Perennial, June 10, 2014), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: The Magical Stranger is a moving story of love and sacrifice, fathers and sons, heroism and duty, soldiers and the families they leave behind.
9780062201478 | Lgr edition (Harpercollins, May 14, 2013), cover price $27.99 | About this edition: The Magical Stranger is a moving story of love and sacrifice, fathers and sons, heroism and duty, soldiers and the families they leave behind.

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Product Description: Nominated as Best Military History Book 2013 in the prestigious journal Air Power History, published by the US Air Force Historical FoundationThe events in Jet Age Man took place during the early Cold War, an era that will go down as a period when civilization teetered on the edge of the abyss...read more

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9781907677465 | Helion & Co Ltd, August 19, 2012, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Nominated as Best Military History Book 2013 in the prestigious journal Air Power History, published by the US Air Force Historical FoundationThe events in Jet Age Man took place during the early Cold War, an era that will go down as a period when civilization teetered on the edge of the abyss.

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9781909384941 | Reprint edition (Helion & Co Ltd, January 19, 2014), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Nominated as Best Military History Book 2013 in the prestigious journal Air Power History, published by the US Air Force Historical FoundationThe events in Jet Age Man took place during the early Cold War, an era that will go down as a period when civilization teetered on the edge of the abyss.

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Product Description: In 1915, James Roger McConnell enlisted as a US volunteer in the French Flying Corps. He was part of a remarkable band of American volunteers, which were formed into the famous American ‘Lafayette’ Escadrille. ‘Flying for France’ was his personal account of the war in the air as seen through the eyes a front-line pilot of the American Escadrille, which was then based at Verdun...read more
By Bob Carruthers (editor)

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9781781592441 | Pen & Sword, November 19, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: In 1915, James Roger McConnell enlisted as a US volunteer in the French Flying Corps.

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9781482932157, titled "The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight: Library Edition" | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, November 5, 2013), cover price $89.95

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By Robert T. Barrett (illustrator), Tom Brokaw and David T. Warner (contributor)

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9781609077006 | Har/dvd edition (Shadow Mountain, October 15, 2013), cover price $21.99

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Product Description: Faced with the challenge of creating an Air Force essentially from scratch, with the nation already in a declared war--U.S. Army leaders were in a scramble. It was the spring of 1917 and the entire U.S. Army had only about 100,000 active-duty soldiers, compared to about 4 million then in uniform for Germany, the largest of the World War I Central Powers...read more

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9780828324526 | Branden Pub Co, June 6, 2013, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Faced with the challenge of creating an Air Force essentially from scratch, with the nation already in a declared war--U.

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Product Description: Clive Evans had a lengthy front-line flying career in which he flew Hunters, Canberras and Lightnings. Apart from his personnel experiences he describes all these types in considerable detail, explaining technical details and the nuances of each type...read more

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9781848847545 | Pen & Sword, November 19, 2012, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Clive Evans had a lengthy front-line flying career in which he flew Hunters, Canberras and Lightnings.

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9780786462759 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, March 27, 2012, cover price $45.00
9780226703831, titled "Basic Christian Ethics" | Reissue edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1980), cover price $14.00 | also contains Basic Christian Ethics

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Product Description: American civilians who were on the home front during World War II would each have different stories to tell. With most, almost certainly their stories would not be as dramatic as the stories of many of those who lived in the battle zones of Europe and the Far East...read more

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9781449732806 | Author Solutions, January 12, 2012, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: American civilians who were on the home front during World War II would each have different stories to tell.

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Product Description: Frank G. Tinker, Jr., a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, Class of 1933, flew in combat with Soviet airmen during the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). Flying with the Spanish Republican Air Force, he was the top American ace during the Spanish Civil War...read more

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9781612510545 | Naval Inst Pr, October 15, 2011, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Frank G.

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Product Description: In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little-known aspect of America’s stalemated war: Navy aviators. His research-inspired, bestselling novel became perhaps the most widely read book ever written about aerial combat...read more

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9780306818516 | Da Capo Pr, May 11, 2010, cover price $25.00

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9780306820106 | Da Capo Pr, October 4, 2011, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: In 1951, James Michener went to Korea to report on a little-known aspect of America’s stalemated war: Navy aviators.

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Dr. Smith went to the Naval Aviation cadet program after college and flew with an all weather squadron based at Quonset Point in the 1950s. His story takes you through the whole scenario from cadet to experienced carrier pilot with sea duty in the Mediterranean, Caribbean and the Arctic on the carriers Randolph and Saratoga before he left the navy for a medical career.

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9781467033190 | Author Solutions, September 27, 2011, cover price $28.28

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9781467033183 | Author Solutions, September 27, 2011, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Dr.

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