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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Creamo on June 02, 2002, 02:02:39 AM
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Went Garage Sale shopping today which is a lot of fun, but didn’t anticipate this?
$5 got me a TIMELIFE series called “Wings of War”
It has embossed covers, and silver laid page ends, in mint condition. Wow. Sweet stuff.
The books actually “crack” from never being opened. I opened one book and it was a Typhoon raid by the author, describing it in detail! After I got home, I realized “Samurai” was included, the best WWII book I have read in hoopty paperback(AH Players find it, 1.10 will be most intriguing.)
So what would this normally cost, and have you read any of the books in the series?
No Parachute- LEE
Fighter over Finland – Luukkanen
Fighting the Flying Circus – Rickenbacker
I Flew For The Furer – Knoke
Heaven High---Hell Deep – Archibold
The Big Show – Clostermann
Flight To Arras – Saint Expery
Sagittarius Rising – Lewis
Wing Leader – Johnson
My Secret War – Drury
Low Level Mission – Leon Wolf
Samuria! – Sakai
What a sweet display, so nice I almost don’t want to read them, but will pour threw them anyway breaking the virgin seals.
Are any of these authors notable? Of course, and I know Sakai is.
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Rickenbacker was a US WWI ace.
Thats the only one I know.
might try http://www.alibris.com to find price.
F.
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I have read from that list .
I Flew For The Furer – Knoke
The Big Show – Clostermann
Wing Leader – Johnson
Samuria! – Sakai
But is THe Big Show about a French pilot flying for Brit's ? If thats the book it a damn fine read . The rest nice all so , so don't get me wrong .
I have to ask because I sent alot of my books on to my squad mates and don't have them now .
Most likely you bought a dead guys books , I got some like that before , the "widow" says wtf is this toejam ? and takes it to the yard sale :eek:
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The big Show is about a French fighter ace in the RAF so it says.
Not so sure about the dead guy thing. I commented that they appeared that had never been read and she rolled her eyes, looked at her husband disgusted, and pry would have given them away.
Oh well, they found a good home.
I'm hoping next week someone really pisses their wife off and they have a TM Cougar in a box with a orange $.50 yard sale sticker on it.
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Wait Creamo!
You bought all these for $5??
I got these, mailed to me once a month, thru Time/Life.
I believe they were like $15 a book!!! Maybe more, I cant remember
Bastiage!! Most of them are excellent reads!!
I have all of them. I noticed one you dont have that is excellent, "A Thousand Shall Fall" by Maury Peden. Book about British Bomber pilots flying Lanc's and B-17s at night.
"Night Fighter" and "War in a Stringbag" are also good.
My look practically new also. Enjoy!
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Thats what they would be, a once a month book deal. Too bad it's incomplete sounds like. Still, yeah someone pry paid around $240 for them. You'd think that would be incentive alone to read them.
Since you have the same setup, whats with the Label "Ex Libris" Wing of War all about? Like a personal tag or something?
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I believe it means 'The Library Of". Then there is a blank area where one can put their name. I pasted mine to the inside front cover. I never printed on them though. So they are all blank. Maybe I'll have them printed up real nice by someone because my printing stinks.
My total collection is 23 books.
Swager
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Creamo, jackpot!
Closterman was one of the leading Tiffy aces.
Johnson was the leading RAF ace and a great tactical leader. He flew Spitfires exclusively.
Knoke was unapologetic Nazi who had an extensive career flying 109s. Wounded and shot down several times. He invented the technique of dropping bombs on bomber formation.
St. Exupery was a P-38 recon pilot and wrote a noted series of childrens books before the war.
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Eino Luukkanen, CO of the real life Lentolaivue 34.
He scored 56 victories during 441 sorties (the biggest number of flown operational sorties in the whole Finnish Air Force).
(http://www.muodos.fi/LLv34/kuvat/luukpotr.jpg)
More about Mr. Luukkanen and Lentolaivue 34:
http://www.muodos.fi/LLv34/ (click the "history" link)
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Now I fully understand the BASTARD part of the FDB :)
Wtg Creamo !
concerning the books :
The Big Show – Clostermann
Cloclo is the leading french ace of WWII he ended Wing Commander in the RAF (at this time he was still a leutnant for the French Air Farce ;)) he flyed spit and Tempest for the rest ... just read that book :D
Flight To Arras – Saint Expery
St Ex is THE flying poet (sorry Richard Bach is only 2nd ;))
He was one of the "précurseur" of French Aéropostale (airmail) Flight To Arras is the story of his war in the french army in 1939/40.
st Ex wrote : the little prince, night flying(*) which are mandatory read for anyone interrested in flying (IMO of course)
(*)I'm not sure of the tittle translation
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Originally posted by funkedup
St. Exupery was a P-38 recon pilot and wrote a noted series of childrens books before the war.
errr ... :)
he just wrote one :)
Courrier Sud (Southern Mail), 1929
Vol de Nuit (Night Flight), 1931
Terre des Hommes (Wind, Sand, and Stars), 1939
Pilote de Guerre (Flight to Arras), 1942
Lettre à un Otage (Letter to a Hostage), 1943
Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince), 1943 <== this one ;)
Citadelle (The Wisdom of the Sands), posthumous
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Thx Straffo I think I confused his books with somebody else. I did read Le Petit Prince au lycée.
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I've read two of them, Fighting the Flying Circus and Samurai. Both good books. Nice haul.
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Creamo,
It's your lucky day!
I'm giving you the opportunity to DOUBLE your money!
That's right, I'll give you a whopping $10 for your books!
What a shrewd business man you'l be, doubling your money!
Think about it.
eskimo
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You have to credit that guy.. writing a book about a child's innocence in the midst of the most horrible war in human history. Wow.
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Just a quick review as I poured through “I flew for the Furer”.
It was worth the $5 already.
This guy went through more 109’s, it almost was comical if it wasn’t real. He had to have more jumps than a certified skydiver instructor.
The horror, and gore he saw, and still went up sometimes moments later was horrid.
And when you hear him describe the 50-1 odds late in the war, it left you routing for the Germans in a sad pitiful way.
Personally, I’d refrain from “gangbang” whines in AH. His response in real life was one of eager anticipation to shoot them all down. Hell, he even went up with unserviceable planes, and tried not to pull G’s as it would fall apart.
This whole pretence of needing a 1V1 in equal planes and if that specific gameplay criteria is not met is a somehow a showstopper seems ridiculous. In Ah you can gain a small personal victory vs. the odds, in the real deal, you just stopped what you could and then were cut to pieces by 50 cals and burned to death.
I’m finding great merit in reading what really happened and thinking that attitude might want to be practiced online.
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Your scaring me Creamo, decent posts, no vulgar language, no insulting...hmmm....
Anyway,
Great price on that discovery! from that list I have:
Fighting the Flying Circus – Rickenbacker
I Flew For The Furer – Knoke
Heaven High---Hell Deep – Archibold
The Big Show – Clostermann
Wing Leader – Johnson
My Secret War – Drury
Samuria! – Sakai
One B17 book I highly recommend (forgive me if the title is wrong, or correct me, its at home) is "The Bloody 100th" or something to that title...obviously about the bloody 100th.
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Nice books in the above posts :) ... I'd add:
- The Look of The Eagles (Godfrey)
- Messerchmitts Over Sicily (J.Steinhoff)
- The Last Enemy (Hillary)
- Serenade to The Big Bird (B.Stiles)
- Fighter Pilot (P.Richey)
- Piece of Cake (the best fiction book around by, D.Robinson)
- Mustang Ace (Goebels)
- Hell Island (Mc Caffery)
I really love Clostermann's book (I've got the original 1st edition). Reading it you can almost really feel the fear and the desperation of a tired pilot.
Stiles and Hillary books are *very good*. Two classics.
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.... and Straffo,
"Terre des Hommes" is my favourite book *ever* ;)
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Lucky guy, Creamo. I have trouble to find Johnson's and Sakai's books.
You should begin with the Big Show. Very well written.
If you can find them, don't miss:
- Stuka pilot, by Hans Ulrich Rüdel
- The first and the last, by Adolf Galland
and, on top of all of them, a real jewel:
- Enemy Coast Ahead, by Guy Gibson (who led the Rhur's Dams raid). I re-read it at least once every year.