{"product_id":"on-glorious-wings-the-best-flying-stories-of-the-century-9780812578638","title":"On Glorious Wings: The Best Flying Stories of the Century","description":"\u003cp\u003eSince its invention in 1903  the airplane has become the dominant mode of transport  travel  and combat. It has brought the entire planet closer together and changed almost every aspect of how we live today.  Along the way  the airplane has inspired writers in every decade of the twentieth century to celebrate this world-changing creation. From the wild first years of aviation when daredevil men challenged each other to set altitude records to the terrible three-dimensional landscape of combat in the air through all the wars of this century  authors from around the world have written of the airplanes and the men and women who fly them.  Now  bestselling author Stephen Coonts has collected some of the finest fiction about flying in one volume. On Glorious Wings contains stories and excerpts from world-renowned authors  including Dale Brown  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle  Louis LAmour  James Michener  Joseph Heller  Len Deighton  Frederick Forsyth  William Faulkner  Ralph Peters and Stephen Coonts himself. From the rickety wire-and-wood contraptions of the 1920s to the possible future of warfare in 2020  this collection invites you to take to the skies with some of todays most acclaimed authors  including:  \"Five Weeks in a Balloon\" by Jules Verne: Take a fanciful trip through the air as imagined by one of the great authors of the nineteenth century.  \"All of the Dead Pilots\" by William Faulkner: One of Americas greatest storytellers looks at Britain in World War II  where a brash American pilot and an unflappable British officer clash over the same woman.  \"Wings over Khabarovsk\" by Louis LAmour: The great Western writer also penned many tales for the pulp magazines of the 1930s and 40s  including this classic of the genre about an American pilot framed for spying on the far side of the world.  \"An Hour to San Francisco \" from The High and the Mighty  by Ernest K. Gann: When a four-engine plane loses an engine over the Pacific Ocean  what had been an uneventful trip becomes a white-knuckle race for survival. 0 \"Corey Ford Buys the Farm \" from Flight of the Intruder  by Stephen Coonts: During the Vietnam Conflict  pilots took lightly armed A-6 Intruders on harrowing near-suicide missions against the North Vietnamese army. Here  the master of the military thriller takes you along for the ride inside the cockpit as three Intruders head out to destroy some Russian MiG fighters grounded in Laos.  \"Power River MOA \" from The Sky Masters  by Dale Brown: At the Powder River weapons-testing site  the jet fighters may fire blanks  but the air combat simulations are as real as can be. Strap yourself in for a ride in the latest in bomber technology-the EB-52 Megafortress.  \"Retaliation \" from The War in 2020  by Ralph Peters: In the near future  America is threatened by a joint Iran-Japan military force that threatens the Middle East and Europe. Saddle up with the high-tech  hard-hitting cavalry soldiers of the future and their armored  fire-breathing future flying machines as they take to the air to raid on an enemy base.  With an introduction and story notes written by Stephen Coonts  On Glorious Wings is a must-have for any aviation enthusiast.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45276424962101,"sku":"ByrdShop_0812578635","price":62.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780812578638.jpg?v=1780551019","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/on-glorious-wings-the-best-flying-stories-of-the-century-9780812578638","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}