Bombs Away, The Story of a Bomber Team
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Title: | Bombs Away, The Story of a Bomber Team | ||||||||
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Published: | 1942 | ||||||||
Publisher: | The Viking Press | ||||||||
Tags: | airplanes, instructional, military, non-fiction, war, World War II | ||||||||
Description: | The book was commissioned by the U.S. Air Force in an effort to recruit more trainees for the Air Force and to boost morale. It tells the story of a bomber team as experienced by John Steinbeck in spending time with men on various Air Force bases. He learned about the different jobs that make up a bomber team and documented that knowledge in the writing of this book.—Wikipedia. | ||||||||
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Pages | 149 |
Author Bio for Steinbeck, John
John Steinbeck (1902-1968) was one of the great American writers. He was known for writing books filled with social criticism such as Tortilla Flats and The Grapes of Wrath. He won the Nobel Prize in 1962 for his “realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.” (nobelprize.org)
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