So I Bought an Air Force: The True Story of a Gritty Midwesterner in Somoza's Nicaragua

Nicaraguan strongman General Anastasio Somoza is making room for the modern jets sent down by his Cold War ally the United States. Will Martin a 34-year-old civilian pilot has just suffered the loss of his family business in Chicago and is looking to make a fresh start. So I Bought An Air Force is the wild but true tale of how Martin buys the Nicaraguan Air Forces fleet of P-51 Mustangs F-47 Thunderbolts and C-45 Expeditors and his struggles to get his planes back up to the U.S. With stunning color photographs from the authors personal archive "So I Bought An Air Force" gives the reader a vivid look at the rough-and-tumble world of 1960s Latin America from the cockpit of some of the hottest American aircraft ever built.