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In advance of the HBO event--the triumphant story of the legendary Eighth Air Force as told by the brave men themselves. In the skies of World War II Europe, the Eighth Air Force was a defining factor in turning the tide against the Nazis. In these gripping oral histories, the sacrifice, savagery, and supremacy of the ""Mighty Eighth"" is described by those who experienced it...and survived it. At the outbreak of World War II, America was woefully unprepared for a fight, though Europe was already years into the battle. Soon, though, America's war machine was rolling out pilots, engineers, planes, and materials in astounding numbers. It was called the Eighth Air Force-and it would hit the Nazi juggernaut like a lightning bolt. Launching a then-groundbreaking campaign of daylight bombing runs, the men of the Eighth would suffer more casualties than the entire Marine Corps in the Pacific theater. But they would also prove to be the most effective weapon against the enemy, taking out strategic targets such as munitions plants and factories that were vital to the German war effort and grinding them to a halt. In The Mighty Eighth, the men who fought in the greatest air war in human history tell their stories of courage and camaraderie as only those who were there can tell them.

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-Great reading.---Stephen Ambrose -Bold, brawny, epic in scope...Astor captures the fire and passion of these tens of thousands of U.S. airmen who flew through the inferno that was the bomber war over Europe.---Stephen Coonts

Praise for The Mighty Eighth Great reading. -Stephen Ambrose Bold, brawny, epic in scope...Astor captures the fire and apssion of these tens of thousands of U.S. airmen who flew through the inferno that was the bomber war over Europe. -Stephen Coonts

Great reading. --Stephen Ambrose Bold, brawny, epic in scope...Astor captures the fire and passion of these tens of thousands of U.S. airmen who flew through the inferno that was the bomber war over Europe. --Stephen Coonts

Great reading. --Stephen Ambrose Bold, brawny, epic in scope...Astor captures the fire and passion of these tens of thousands of U.S. airmen who flew through the inferno that was the bomber war over Europe. --Stephen Coonts Great reading. --Stephen Ambrose Bold, brawny, epic in scope...Astor captures the fire and passion of these tens of thousands of U.S. airmen who flew through the inferno that was the bomber war over Europe. --Stephen Coonts Great reading. --Stephen Ambrose Bold, brawny, epic in scope...Astor captures the fire and passion of these tens of thousands of U.S. airmen who flew through the inferno that was the bomber war over Europe. --Stephen Coonts Bold, brawny, epic in scope. --Stephen Coonts, author of Pirate Alley Revealing and vivid personal sketches of the quiet heroes in a unit that suffered more lives lost than the entire Marine Corps in WWII. -- Kirkus Reviews One of the most accomplished oral historians at work today. -- Publishers Weekly No one does oral history better than Gerald Astor... here the men of the mightiest air force ever built tell their story in their own words. --Stephen Ambrose, author of Band of Brothers

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Gerald Astor was a World War II veteran and award-winning journalist and historian whose articles have appeared in theNew York Times, Playboy, and Esquire.

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