Aviators, The : Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight (Paperback)

from buffalogr

This book intertwines the lives of three great American aviators: Lindbergh, Doolittle and Rickenbacker. They are all known for individual events that changed history and this book provides the other parts of their stories and describes how those changes were institutionalized by their actions du...

from Schmerguls

5121. The Aviators Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight, by Winston Groom (read 8 Feb 2014) This is an excellent book and reads effortlessly. Since I read Doolittle's autobiography (I''ll Never Be So Lucky Again) on 29 Nov 2009, and Lindbergh's The Sp...

from Stbalbach

The Aviators starts off awkwardly but once you get used to the round-robbin technique sit back and enjoy a fine 3-for-one biography of aviation pioneers from the heroic age of flight. There are many famous events skillfully retold by novelist Winston Groom. Most of it is new to me but even the pa...

from addunn3

The author tells the stories of three aviators of the first half century and what their impact on aviation was as well as their impact on Americans. Well written, though occasionally, seemed to add a bit of his bias into the accounts.

from lanewillson

I was halfway through The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight before I became realized that it's author, Winston Groom, was the man holding the pen that created Forrest Gump and many other works of fiction and reality. Needless to say, I wi...