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  • Masters of the Air

  • How the Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine
  • By: Donald L. Miller
  • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
  • Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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Masters of the Air

By: Donald L. Miller
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
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‘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 Nazis.

Historian 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 listeners 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.

©2020 Donald L. Miller (P)2020 Penguin Audio
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The gruesome nature of air war and the bravery of airmen who fought in it.

I liked the narration and the pace of which the story was told. It’s so vivid.

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Fantastic insight into the bomber war, read perfectly.

I was transported to the war, terrified, horrified and fascinated. Prescribed reading if you want to understand the air war in WWII.

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