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出版社:SCRIBNER
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ISBN:0743223098
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作者:STEPHEN E.AMBROSE
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頁數:300
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出版日期:2002-01-01
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印刷日期:2002-01-01
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包裝:平裝
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開本:32開
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版次:1
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印次:1
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STEPHEN E. AMBROSE is the author of numerous books of history, including the New York Times bestsellers Citizen Soldiers, Undaunted Courage, and D-Day, as well as multivolume biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He is founder of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, a past recipient of the National Humanities Award, and a board member of the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Council. He lives in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, and Helena, Montana. For more information about the author, visit his Web site at www.stephenambrose.com.
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STEPHEN AMBROSE is the acknowledged dean of the historians of
World War II in Europe. In three highly acclaimed, bestselling
volumes, he has told the story of the bravery, steadfastness, and
ingenuity of the ordinary young men, the citizen soldiers, who
fought the enemy to a standstill--the band of brothers who endured
together.
The very young men who flew the B-24s over Germany in World
War II against terrible odds were yet another exceptional band of
brothers, and, in The Wild Blue, Ambrose recounts their
extraordinary brand of heroism, skill, daring, and comradeship
with the same vivid detail and affection.With his remarkable gift
for bringing alive the action and tension of combat, Ambrose
carries us along in the crowded, uncomfortable, and dangerous
B-24s as their crews fought to the death through thick black smoke
and deadly flak to reach their targets and destroy the German war
machine.
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Acknowledgments Author's Note Prologue Cast of Characters CHAPTER ONE Where They Came From CHAPTER TWO Training CHAPTER THREE Learning to Fly the B-24 CHAPTER FOUR The Fifteenth Air Force CHAPTER FIVE Cerignola, Italy CHAPTER SIX Learning to Fly in Combat CHAPTER SEVEN December 1944 CHAPTER EIGHT The Isle of Capri CHAPTER NINE The Tuskegee Airmen Fly Cover: February 1945 CHAPTER TEN Missions over Austria: March 1945 CHAPTER ELEVEN Linz: The Last Mission: April 1945 Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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