Masters of the Air cover art

Masters of the Air

How the Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine

 Preview

Get 30 days of Standard free

£5.99/mo after trial. Cancel monthly.
Try for £0.00
More purchase options

Masters of the Air

By: Donald L. Miller
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
Try for £0.00

£5.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for £15.24

Buy Now for £15.24

Summary

Brought to you by Penguin.

‘Seconds after Brady’s plane was hit, the Hundredth’s entire formation was broken up and scattered by swarms of single-engine planes, and by rockets launched by twin-engine planes that flew parallel.'

Meet the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force, Britain’s Lancaster comrades, who helped to bring down the Nazis.

Historian and World War II expert Donald Miller brings us the story of the bomber boys who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep. Unlike ground soldiers, they slept on clean beds, drank beer in local pubs and danced to the swing music of the travelling Air Force bands. But they were also an elite group of fighters who put their lives on the line in the most dangerous role of all. 

Miller takes listeners from the adrenaline-filled battles in the sky, to the airbases across England, the German prison camps and onto the ground to understand the devastation faced by civilians. 

Drawn from interviews, oral histories and American, British and German archives, Masters of the Air is the authoritative, deeply moving and important account of the world's first and only bomber war. 

©2020 Donald L. Miller (P)2020 Penguin Audio Historical Military Military & War Politicians Politics & Activism World War II War Air Force US Air Force Imperialism Aviation Submarine
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_c
All stars
Most relevant
Awesome book, full of detail from the end of ww1 right through to the end of ww2 , you will not be disappointed (even though the narrators voice is a bit drawl at times lol ) 10/10

Masters of the air

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Very detailed and graphic and covered many of the airmen’s back stories. Excellent . And very informative

The graphic details

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Brilliant book and exactly what I was looking for! I'd already watched the TV series Masters of the Air and then read this book. I'd recommend doing it the other way around as the book provides so many insights across WWII when it comes to the American Airforce in Europe and really helped me to understand the show itself and so much more.

The stories of the bomber boys were incredible and equally unimaginable. I learned a lot from this book.

Excellent insightful history

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
There was a couple of references to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp that were wrong, where he states that Buchenwald received a FIRE STORM, The bombing was very accurate and landed on the Wilhelm Gustuff Werks II. And there was where he visited the Crematorium which had run out of coal about two weeks before the liberation, so the ovens where cold by the time he3 visited. I happen to know this is true because I HAD BEEN AN INMATE SINCE 1942, WHEN I WAS 5 1/22 YEARS OLD

Only two mistakes that I noticed.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Amazing detail and very well read. But be prepared for an extremely heartbreaking story, made all the worse by being real. I thought I understood the air war over Europe, but this book is crammed full of things I never understood and many that I wish I could forget.

Heartbreaking

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews