TERROR OF THE AUTUMN SKIES PA

by PARDOE,BLAINE

• ISBN13: 9781616082949
• ISBN10: 1616082941
• Edition: 00
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2011-07-17
• Publisher: FRWHEEL

Summary

Frank Luke, Jr. was an unlikely pilot. In the Great War, when fliers were still #xE2;#xAC;Sknights of the air,#xE2;#xAC; Luke was an ungallant loner#xE2;#xAC;#x1D;a kid from Arizona who collected tarantulas, shot buzzards, and boxed miners. But during two torrid weeks in September 1918, he was the deadliest man on the Western Front. In only ten missions, he destroyed fourteen heavily-defended German balloons and four airplanes, the second highest American tally in the entire war. Author Blaine Pardoe retraces and refreshes Frank Luke#xE2;#xAC;"s story through recently discovered correspondence. Frantic, short, and splendid, the life of Frank Luke, Jr. dramatizes the tragic intervention of an American spirit in the war that devastated Europe.

Author Biography

Blaine Pardoe is a novelist and military historian. He has been a featured speaker at the United States National Archives, the United States Navy Museum, and the New York Military Affairs Symposium. His books have been printed in six languages. Pardoe resides in Amissville, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Prologue	p. xiii
First Blood	p. 1
The Wild Boy	p. 13
Fly with the Eagles	p. 29
Into the Air	p. 43
The American Expeditionary Force	p. 53
The Front	p. 71
Busting Balloons	p. 87
Fire in the Sky	p. 99
The Dynamic Duo	p. 107
Roar in the Skies	p. 117
Recognition	p. 127
The Darkest of Times	p. 133
In the Limelight	p. 141
Ivan the Missing	p. 151
Crescendo	p. 161
"Watch for burning balloons ahead..."	p. 165
Into the Setting Sun	p. 173
When Time Stood Still	p. 181
One Man, Many Lives	p. 195
The Stuff of Legends	p. 207
Afterword	p. 225
Bibliography	p. 247
Notes to Chapters	p. 267
About the Author	p. 301
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