Thunder in the Heavens : Classic Aircraft of World War II

by Martin W. Bowman

Book Overview

America produced over 200,000 B-17 Flying Fortresses, B-24 Liberators, and B-29 Super Fortresses. Out of this massive total, only one B-24 remains today. Thunder in the Heavens is a photographic... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 086101751X
• ISBN13: 9780861017515
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Salamander
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

WoW

like you have never seen before. fresh and new. if you are not a vet you can feel what it was like to fly and experence the feelings of the men who flew the one and only WWII aircraft.!!

Imagination gets the best of me guy

The type of book you would sit on a balcony outside and read/look at while imagining a b-17 flying fortress flying right in front of you.....then you suddenly appear in the plane, the pilot is yelling for you to drop the bombs so you can get the heck out of there, but you have to wait till the target appears in your bomb site, then you flip the trigger......bomb after bomb fall into the clear sky as you watch the industrial plants and ship yards of Hamburg Germany ignite into a fireworks display......then you suddenly appear back on your balcony starring into the open clear sky, just hoping that big four engined, porky pined hunk of steel comes out of the sky ready to pick you up for another mission......Yes the book is that good...go get it now!

Superior Air-to-Air Photography

One of the best compilations of air-to-air photography ever seen, of WWII or other aircraft. This book is on the level of John Dibbs' 'Flying Legends,' but whereas the Dibbs book provides elegant, formally posed portraits of the aircraft, this title shows the birds in more atmospheric settings, but does not sacrifice the sharp focus of Dibbs' work. This book contains the best air-to-air pictures of any B-29 I have ever seen. They are, of course, of FIFI, the CAF bird. They possess the rare magic that the best of air-to-air photographs have, of making you feel you're actually flying along in the photoship.