Top Guns: America's Fighter Aces Tell Their Stories

by Joe Foss

Book Overview

Like the cowboy, the frontier trader has been so wrapped in myth that our understanding of who he was and what he did is largely shaped by stereotype: the Indian trader, for example - gunrunner,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0671683179
• ISBN13: 9780671683177
• Release Date: June 1991
• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

A sure-fire adrenaline pumper from WW2

Foss and Brennan go much in thevein of books by Eric Hammel, but what I find better in this book is the length of the excerpts. Covering four wars, they let each pilot describe a longer sequence of events than what is found in Hammel's books, for example Jeff De Blanc gives an account of his miraculous rescue after being shot down over Kolombangara. In Hammel's Aces Part 1, the reader is left wondering about that bit.First-hand accounts can be boring, but not one of this book's accounts is.