Name: I Always Wanted to Fly: America S Cold War Airmen - Wolfgang W. E. Samuel
Brand: Wolfgang W.E. Samuel
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In I Always Wanted to Fly Wolfgang Samuel presents a book on a neglected subject, the U.S. Air Force men and women of the Cold War. These are the people who won the Cold War-not by themselves, obviously, but don't ask me how it could have been done without them. Colonel Samuel is a ﬂyer, ﬁrst of all, but he is also a historian. In this book he concentrates on people. Through Samuel's work, we learn how it was done and by whom. -Stephen E. Ambrose, author of Citizen Soldiers: The U.S. Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany, June 7, 1944 to May 7, 1945 I Always Wanted to Fly displays the clarity that comes from ﬂying on the hot end of the Cold War and, as a consequence, tells us much about the sociopolitical evolution of our recent era as well as revealing how these Air Force missions were ﬂown. Any readers who have marveled at the last half-century's magniﬁcent military aircraft and the supremely professional ﬂyers at their controls will be attracted to this book. -Jerome Klinkowitz, author of With the Tigers over China 1941-1942 and Yanks over Europe: American Flyers in World War II Wolf Samuel uses personal experiences to underscore American airpower's formidable role in winning the Cold War. Framed by his own excellent prose, Samuel lets the pilots, navigators, and air and ground crew tell their own tales. The result, of course, is a series of ripping good war stories-bona ﬁde 'there I was . . .' narratives-that paint for us a ﬂyer's life du