Air America

by Christopher Robbins

Book Overview

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• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0380899094
• ISBN13: 9780380899098
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: Avon Books
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

The book blows the movie away!

Don't let the fact that Mel Gibson and Robert Downey, Jr. are on the cover of this book (to promote their movie "Air America") fool you! Once you read the book, you will quickly find that the movie and the book really only share a title. In fact, if I were Christopher Robbins, I would have taken the money that Hollywood paid me for the film rights, refinanced the "100-acre wood," and gone off to live with Tigger and Pooh! (Ok, I know. They are not the same people.) I would then divorce my name from any association with the B-grade film that utterly and completely failed to tell the story of these brave Americans who helped support the U.S. war efforts in Southeast Asia. Aside from the arguably inaccurate chapter dealing with Air America's trafficking of opium, Robbins' research was well received by both former Air America personnel, and eventually, the CIA. I would recommend this book to any aviation/history enthusiast who enjoys reading about the exploits of paramilitary aviation operations. The book is definitely worth reading . . . just put a bunch of masking tape on the cover. That way you won't be embarrassed if someone on the subway sees you reading it!

Can't stop while reading this one !

Found this book in a Bangkok airport taxfree shop , bought it , started reading it and finished it within 2 days.A great view inside the secret air operations in SE Asia during the 60's / 70's. Furthermore other info about the years before and after the Vietnam war.Would like to read more about this subject. Would like to see more photo's from this era.Great writing style by Mr.Robbins.One of my top 3 books !

Grab this book if interested in the war in Southeast Asia

This book sparked a small controversy when it was released in 1979 because it was one of the first to take a serious look at America's "secret" war in Laos and Cambodia. Robbins did a fine job by interviewing pilots and showing what it was like to fly, fight and survive what many thought was a backwater to the Vietnam war. I thought he was very fair to the men who fought there. Catch his other book, if you like this one, "The Ravens." Released almost a decade later, in 1987, "The Ravens" tells the story of secret Forward Air Controllers, or FACs, who controlled air strikes during the Vietnam War. Robbins got even better stories for "The Ravens." Both books are kind of hard to find though. You have to buy them used.