Published by Bloomsbury, 1988. 1st edition.. Hardback. Nearly Fine/Very Good. Nearly fine condition in a very good dustwrapper. Reflections of a World War II Aviator. Red boards, gilt title to spine. viii and 270 pages. Light pencil erasure to front endpaper else contents fine. Blue dustwrapper is lightly browned and price-clipped.

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Samuel Hynes served as a consultant on "The War", directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and appears on camera in several episodes. "The War" is a seven-part, 14-hour documentary series that debuts on PBS on Sunday, September 23, 2007. Sam Hynes was eighteen when he left his Minnesota home for navy flight school in 1943. By the time the war ended he was a veteran Marine pilot, still not quite twenty-one, and had flown more than a hundred missions in the Pacific theater. In this eloquent narrative, by turns dramatic, funny, and elegiac, Hynes recalls those extraordinary years during which he came of age. he makes real the places—the training fields and the liberty towns and the Pacific islands, and the people—the other young pilots, the girls and the young wives, even the enemy pilots. He remembers friendship, and the excitement and tedium of war, the high exhilaration of flying, and the dying. More than a tale of combat, Flight of Passage is a story of one boy's growth to manhood in the turbulent, testing world of war in the air.

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Bookseller: Stella & Rose's Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 1802806
Title: FLIGHTS OF PASSAGE
Author: Hynes, Samuel
Format/Binding: Hardback
Book Condition: Used - Nearly Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st edition.
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0747503338
ISBN 13: 9780747503330
Publisher: Published by Bloomsbury
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1988
Keywords: MILITARY WORLD WAR II AVIATION USA BIOGRAPHY

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