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Soon to be a major television event from Apple TV, Masters of the Air is the riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II, the story of the young men who flew the bombers that helped bring Nazi Germany to its knees, brilliantly told by historian and World War II expert Donald Miller.<\/p>\n

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler\u2019s doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes you on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people.<\/p>\n

Fighting at 25,000 feet in thin, freezing air that no warriors had ever encountered before, bomber crews battled new kinds of assaults on body and mind. Air combat was deadly but intermittent: periods of inactivity and anxiety were followed by short bursts of fire and fear. Unlike infantrymen, bomber boys slept on clean sheets, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the swing music of Glenn Miller\u2019s Air Force band, which toured US air bases in England. But they had a much greater chance of dying than ground soldiers.<\/p>\n

The bomber crews were an elite group of warriors who were a microcosm of America\u2014white America, anyway. The actor Jimmy Stewart was a bomber boy, and so was the \u201cKing of Hollywood,\u201d Clark Gable. And the air war was filmed by Oscar-winning director William Wyler and covered by reporters like Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite, all of whom flew combat missions with the men. The Anglo-American bombing campaign against Nazi Germany was the longest military campaign of World War II, a war within a war. Until Allied soldiers crossed into Germany in the final months of the war, it was the only battle fought inside the German homeland.<\/p>\n

Masters of the Air is a story of life in wartime England and in the German prison camps, where tens of thousands of airmen spent part of the war. It ends with a vivid description of the grisly hunger marches captured airmen were forced to make near the end of the war through the country their bombs destroyed.<\/p>\n

Drawn from interviews, oral histories, and American, British, German, and other archives, Masters of the Air is an authoritative, deeply moving account of the world\u2019s first and only bomber war.<\/p>\n

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Customers find the book engaging and informative. They appreciate the detailed accounts of the history and vivid combat vignettes. Readers praise the writing quality as well-written and accurate. The character development is described as remarkable, heroic, and heartfelt. However, opinions differ on the pacing – some find it compelling and moving, while others consider it not as compelling as other books.<\/span><\/p>\n

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