China Clipper: The Age of the Great Flying Boats
By: Robert Gandt
4.24
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
When the China Clipper shattered aviation records on its maiden six-day flight from California to t…
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1. A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
By: Lee Child
4.05
Format: 427 pages, Paperback
When you're as big and rough as Jack Reacher - and you have a badly set, freshly busted nose, patch… read more
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"Resolute, responsible, determined, knowledgeable, and perceptive"-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
"Some old guy once said that the meaning of life is that it ends."-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
"A handgun at two hundred feet is the same thing as crossing your fingers and making a wish."-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
"As a general rule. it's a comfort issue, literally and metaphorically. And intimacy issue. It's a big step, putting on foreign underwear. Like betrayal, or emigration."-Lee Child, A Wanted Man (Jack Reacher, #17)
2. The Beasts of Tarzan (Tarzan, #3)
By: Edgar Rice Burroughs
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Not long after Tarzan claims his hereditary title of Lord Greystoke and marries Jane, their infant … read more
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3. Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational Mission
By: Jay Miller , Richard H. Graham
3.90
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
For anyone who has ever wondered what its like to fly the SR-71 on a secret Mach 3 reconnaissance m… read more
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4. The Feast of the Goat
By: Mario Vargas Llosa , Edith Grossman
4.33
Format: 475 pages, Paperback
Haunted all her life by feelings of terror and emptiness, forty-nine-year-old Urania Cabral returns… read more
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"باور نمی کردم که او به دوست قدیمی خودش نارو بزند. خب دیگر، سیاست یعنی همین، آدم روی جنازه دیگران جلو می رود."-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
"They had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth. Everybody had jobs and there wasn't so much crime."-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
"миллионы людей, одурманенные пропагандой и отсутствием информации, отупевшие от догматизма и изоляции от внешнего мира, лишенные свободы и воли, а от страха—даже и любопытства, пришли к угодничеству …"-Mario Vargas Llosa, The Feast of the Goat
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5. The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
By: Gregory A. Freeman
4.36
Format: None pages,
An astonishing, never-before-told story of the Second World War, based on newly declassified docume… read more
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6. Rumpole of the Bailey
By: John Mortimer
3.51
Format: None pages, Paperback
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and … read more
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7. Fate Is the Hunter
By: Ernest K. Gann
3.00
Format: 432 pages, Paperback
Ernest K. Gann's classic memoir is an up-close and thrilling account of the treacherous early days … read more
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8. German Boy: A Child in War
By: Wolfgang W.E. Samuel
4.09
Format: 349 pages, Paperback
As the Third Reich crumbled in 1945, scores of Germans scrambled to flee the advancing Russian troo… read more
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9. The Lady in the Lake (Philip Marlowe, #4)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.36
Format: None pages, Paperback
A couple of missing wives--one a rich man's and one a poor man's--become the objects of Marlowe's i… read more
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10. A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
By: Larry Alexander , Adam Makos
4.36
Format: 392 pages, Hardcover
Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germ… read more
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"You fight by rules to keep your humanity"-Larry Alexander, A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II
11. Armored (Armored, #1)
By: Mark Greaney
4.37
Format: 510 pages, Kindle Edition
A novel inspired by #1 New York Times best-selling author Mark Greaney’s Audible Original drama, Ar… read more
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12. Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
By: Ian W. Toll
4.76
Format: 944 pages, Hardcover
Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacifi… read more
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"TURKEY TROTS TO WATER GG FROM CINCPAC ACTION COM THIRD FLEET INFO COMINCH CTF SEVENTY-SEVEN X WHERE IS RPT WHERE IS TASK FORCE THIRTY FOUR RR THE WORLD WONDERS"-Ian W. Toll, Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
13. His Majesty's Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine
By: S.C. Gwynne
4.02
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From historian and bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Empire of the Summer Moon come… read more
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14. The Great Air Race: Glory, Tragedy, and the Dawn of American Aviation
By: John Lancaster
3.89
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Years before Charles Lindbergh’s flight from New York to Paris electrified the nation, a group of d… read more
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15. Death at Nuremberg (Clandestine Operations, #4)
By: W.E.B. Griffin
4.27
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Assigned to the Nuremberg war trials, special agent James Cronley, Jr., finds himself fighting seve… read more
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16. The Electra Story: The Dramatic History of Aviation's Most Controversial Airliner
By: Robert J. Serling
4.17
Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition
At 11:08 P.M. on the humid night of September 29, 1959, Braniff Flight 542 crashed on a farm near B… read more
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17. Holding the Line: The Naval Air Campaign In Korea
By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
3.93
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Naval and air power was crucial to the United Nations' success in the Korean War, as it sought to n… read more
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18. China Clipper: The Age of the Great Flying Boats
By: Robert Gandt
4.24
Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition
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19. Beyond Mach 3: A Pilot’s Journey Through The U-2 and SR-71 (1950 to 1970) A Memoir
By: Buddy Brown
4.55
Format: 206 pages, Kindle Edition
Immerse yourself in sky-high adventure and the unwavering bravery of a legendary pilot who broke ba… read more
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20. The Long Way Home: A Journey Into History with Captain Robert Ford
By: Ed Dover
4.27
Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition
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21. B-36 ‘Peacemaker’ Units of the Cold War (Combat Aircraft Book 144)
By: Peter E. Davies
4.33
Format: 96 pages, Kindle Edition
A fully illustrated study into the extraordinary Convair B-36 during the Cold War.Conceived during … read more
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