Bird Men The Rise of American Airpower and the Machine That Ended World War II

Started by BeMyLove, Oct 20, 2026, 04:17 AM

Previous topic - Next topic

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

BeMyLove



Bird Men The Rise of American Airpower and the Machine That Ended World War II | 14.44 MB

Title: Bird Men The Rise of American Airpower and the Machine That Ended World War II
Author: A. J. Baime
Category: History, World War II, Historical, Business, Aviation
Language: English | 704 str. Pages | ISBN: 9780063411791


Description:
Bestselling author of The Arsenal of Democracy and The Accidental President, A. J. Baime returns with the incredible story of the airplane that ended World War II, the B-29 Superfortress, the rise of American airpower, and the man who made it all possible.
Of all the feats of American ingenuity in World War II, perhaps none was as impressive in scale or vital to the Allied victory as the creation of American airpower. Just a few years before the start of World War II, the American military was stuck in the dark ages of aviation, with the U.S. Army's Air Corps mainly focused, not on combat, but on mail delivery. Fast forward to end of the war, and America had launched the most impressive flying machine the world had ever seen: the B-29 Superfortress, a weapon so essential to ending the war that its research and development process cost more than the Manhattan Project.
Now A. J. Baime, one of our foremost chroniclers of twentieth-century history,...