Masters of the Air

Resumen del libro

Now a major television event from Apple TV and Steven Spielberg, and companion to Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Now a major television event from Apple TV and Steven Spielberg (starring Austin Butler, Callum Turner and Anthony Boyle) and companion to Band of Brothers and The Pacific. 'Seconds after Brady's plane was hit, the Hundredth's entire formation was broken up and scattered by swarms of single-engine planes, and by rockets launched by twin-engine planes that flew parallel'Meet the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force, Britain's Lancaster comrades, who helped to bring down the NazisHistorian and World War II expert Donald Miller brings us the story of the bomber boys who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep.

Unlike ground soldiers they slept on clean beds, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the swing music of the travelling Air Force bands. But they were also an elite group of fighters who put their lives on the line in the most dangerous role of all. Miller takes readers from the adrenaline filled battles in the sky, to the airbases across England, the German prison camps, and onto the ground to understand the devastation faced by civilians.

Drawn from interviews, oral histories, and American, British and German archives, Masters of the Air is the authoritative, deeply moving and important account of the world's first and only bomber war.

Biografía del autor

Donald Miller es catedrático emérito de historia del Lafayette College y autor de diez libros, entre ellos Vicksburg: Grantx{0026} x02019;s Campaign That Broke the Confederacy, y ganador de cuatro premios literarios. Fue profesor visitante en el All Soulx{0026} x02019;s College de Oxford y ha sido galardonado con el prestigioso Great Lakes Book Award por City of the Century, su historia de Chicago. Donald Miller Es asimismo autor de Los amos del aire. La historia de los aviadores que golpearon el corazón de la Alemania nazi, el libro que ha inspirado la nueva serie de Steven Spielberg y Tom Hanks tras Hermanos de sangre y The Pacific para Apple TV.