Robert J. Goebel

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  Heinz Guderian

  Military theorist and innovative General of the German Army during the Second World War.
  
  Guderian is considered to be the brain behind the Blitzkrieg strategy and one of the leading tank warfare tacticians.
  
  After the war, the allies failed to find any war crimes committed by Guderian.

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  Pierre Clostermann

  Pierre-Henri Clostermann DSO, DFC & Bar was a World War II French ace fighter pilot.
  
  During the conflict he achieved 33 air-to-air combat victories, earning the accolade "France's First Fighter" from General Charles de Gaulle. His wartime memoir, The Big Show (Le Grand Cirque) became a notable bestseller. After the war, he worked as an engineer and was the youngest Member of France's Parliament.
  
  In 1951, Clostermann authored an account of his wartime experiences entitled Le Grand Cirque (published in English as The Big Show). One of the first post-war fighter pilot memoirs, its various editions have sold over two and a half million copies. William Faulkner stated that "The Big Show" was one of the finest aviation books to come out of World W

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  Donald Macintyre

  Commander Donald George Frederick Wyville Macintyre DSO & DSC was a Royal Navy officer during the Second World War and a successful convoy escort commander. As Commander of HMS Hesperus Macintyre was involved in the Battle of Narvik during the Norway campaign and the Battle of the Atlantic. Following the war, he published his memoirs U-Boat Killer and authored numerous books on British naval history.

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  Frank A. Mason

  Frank A. Mason is the pen name for author Robert (Bob) F. Amason, Ph.D.
  
  Professor at Large at Northern Illinois University (Semi-Retired). He earned his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech and University of Florida. A retired USAF Lieutenant Colonel, Bob Amason was a college professor for 25 years. As an officer in the USAF, Bob flew B-52s during the Cold War, was a flying training instructor, and directed high-level staff organizations over 22 years of his early adult life.
  
  He is a life member of the Sons of the American Revolution. He now lives in Florida with his wife, who is also university professor and author
  
  Winner of the 2023 Gold Royal Palm Literary Award, the highest award from the Florida Writer's Association
  
  (Sources: Amazon author profile, F

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  Tom Glenn

  Tom Glenn served as a fighter pilot in Europe with the 36th Fighter Group (9th Air Force, USAAF) during the Second World War. While in the Army, he rose to the rank of Captain.

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  Peter Townsend

  There is more than one author with this name
  
  Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, CVO, DSO, DFC and Bar, RAF was Equerry to King George VI 1944–1952 and held the same position for Queen Elizabeth II 1952–1953. Townsend is best known for his ill-fated romance with Princess Margaret. Despite his distinguished career, as a divorced man there was no chance of marriage with the princess and their relationship caused enormous controversy in the mid 1950s.
  
  Peter Townsend spent much of his later years writing non-fiction books. His books include "Earth My Friend" (about driving/boating around the world alone in the mid 1950s), "Duel of Eagles," (about the Battle of Britain), "The Odds Against Us" (also known as "Duel in the Dark") (about fighting

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  H.W. "Buzz" Bernard

  H. W. “Buzz” Bernard is a bestselling, award-winning novelist.
  
  His debut novel, EYEWALL, published in 2011, became a number-one bestseller in Amazon’s Kindle Store.
  
  Three of his next four novels won Electronic Publishing Industry Coalition (EPIC) eBook awards in the suspense/thriller category.
  
  In 2020, with the publication of WHEN HEROES FLEW, Buzz switched from writing suspense/thriller novels to WWII historical fiction and began a new series. The first three novels in the series were awarded Gold Medals by the Military Writers Society of America (MWSA). Buzz himself was honored with the MWSA’s highest accolade in 2023, the Founder’s Award.
  
  WHEN HEROES FLEW: THE ROOF OF THE WORLD, the third book in the series, in addition to garnering an MWSA

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  Robin Olds

  ROBIN OLDS "was an American fighter pilot and general officer in the U.S. Air Force. He was a 'triple ace', with a combined total of 16 victories in World War II and the Vietnam War. He retired in 1973 as a brigadier general.
  
  "The son of regular Army Capt. Robert Olds [who had served as a flight instructor in France during the First World War and later became an advocate of strategic bombing in U.S. Army aviation circles], educated at West Point, and the product of an upbringing in the early years of the U.S. Army Air Corps, Olds epitomized the youthful World War II fighter pilot. He remained in the service as it became the United States Air Force, despite often being at odds with its leadership, and was one of its pioneer jet pilots. Rising

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  James Beck

  See [author|548898], art historian.

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  Pierre Clostermann

  Pierre-Henri Clostermann DSO, DFC & Bar was a World War II French ace fighter pilot.
  
  During the conflict he achieved 33 air-to-air combat victories, earning the accolade "France's First Fighter" from General Charles de Gaulle. His wartime memoir, The Big Show (Le Grand Cirque) became a notable bestseller. After the war, he worked as an engineer and was the youngest Member of France's Parliament.
  
  In 1951, Clostermann authored an account of his wartime experiences entitled Le Grand Cirque (published in English as The Big Show). One of the first post-war fighter pilot memoirs, its various editions have sold over two and a half million copies. William Faulkner stated that "The Big Show" was one of the finest aviation books to come out of World W

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  J.E. Johnson

  Air Vice Marshal James Edgar Johnson, CB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar, nicknamed "Johnnie", was a Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot and flying ace—defined as a pilot that has shot down five or more enemy aircraft in aerial combat—who flew and fought during the Second World War.
  
  Johnson grew up and was educated in the East Midlands, where he qualified as an engineer. He served as an Assistant Engineer at Ilkeston and latterly to the Chigwell Urban District Council at Loughton. A sportsman, Johnson broke his collarbone while playing rugby, an injury that later complicated his ambitions of becoming a fighter pilot. Johnson had been interested in aviation since his youth and applied to join the RAF. He was initially rejected, first on social, and

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  Chuck Yeager

  Brigadier General Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager, USAF.
  
  Veteran of WWII and the Vietnam War. Achieved "ace" status during WWII, and post-war became the first pilot to break the sound barrier.
  
  His decorations include the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, Air Medal, Air Force Commendation Medal, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

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  Charles Whiting

  Charles Whiting was a British writer and military historian and with some 350 books of fiction and non-fiction to his credit, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms including Ian Harding, Duncan Harding, K.N. Kostov, John Kerrigan, Klaus Konrad, and Leo Kessler.
  
  Born in the Bootham area of York, England, he was a pupil at the prestigious Nunthorpe Grammar School, leaving at the age of 16 to join the British Army by lying about his age. Keen to be in on the wartime action, Whiting was attached to the 52nd Reconnaissance Regiment and by the age of 18 saw duty as a sergeant in France, Holland, Belgium and Germany in the latter stages of World War II. While still a soldier, he observed conflicts between the highest-ranking British and A

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  Clarence E. Anderson

  Colonel Clarence Emil "Bud" Anderson, USAF
  
  Veteran of World War II and the Vietnam War, with a total of 30 years service in the USAAF and USAF. Credited with 16 aerial victories during WWII, making him a "triple ace." Recipient of the Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal, and, from France, the Croix de Guerre with Palm. In total, he was decorated 25 times. Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.

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  Martin Caidin

  Martin Caidin was a prolific and controversial writer. Most of his work centered around the adventures of pilots and astronauts. A number of his books were notable for their reasonable, realistic predictions of then-futuristic technology.
  
  Caidin's body of work was prolific and varied, ranging from additional speculative/SF novels such as Marooned, which was made into an acclaimed film and considered a harbinger of the Apollo 13 accident, to a novel based upon the character Indiana Jones. He also wrote many non-fiction books about science, aviation and warfare.
  
  Caidin began writing fiction in 1957. In his career he authored more than 50 fiction and nonfiction books as well as more than 1,000 magazine articles. His best-known novel is Cyborg, w

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  James Holland

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  There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name
  
  James Holland was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire, and studied history at Durham University. He has worked for several London publishing houses and has also written for a number of national newspapers and magazines. Married with a son, he lives near Salisbury.
  
  

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  Clarence E. Anderson

  Colonel Clarence Emil "Bud" Anderson, USAF
  
  Veteran of World War II and the Vietnam War, with a total of 30 years service in the USAAF and USAF. Credited with 16 aerial victories during WWII, making him a "triple ace." Recipient of the Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star Medal, Air Medal, and, from France, the Croix de Guerre with Palm. In total, he was decorated 25 times. Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots.

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  James Beck

  See [author|548898], art historian.

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  Peter Townsend

  There is more than one author with this name
  
  Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, CVO, DSO, DFC and Bar, RAF was Equerry to King George VI 1944–1952 and held the same position for Queen Elizabeth II 1952–1953. Townsend is best known for his ill-fated romance with Princess Margaret. Despite his distinguished career, as a divorced man there was no chance of marriage with the princess and their relationship caused enormous controversy in the mid 1950s.
  
  Peter Townsend spent much of his later years writing non-fiction books. His books include "Earth My Friend" (about driving/boating around the world alone in the mid 1950s), "Duel of Eagles," (about the Battle of Britain), "The Odds Against Us" (also known as "Duel in the Dark") (about fighting

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  Tom Glenn

  Tom Glenn served as a fighter pilot in Europe with the 36th Fighter Group (9th Air Force, USAAF) during the Second World War. While in the Army, he rose to the rank of Captain.

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  Jim Wilson

  Jim Wilson could have simply dismissed himself as a competent piano tuner-technician, even an exceptional one. But he was and is so much more, and it took the sudden death of a dear friend and the encouragement of a legendary singer/songwriter to prove it to him.
  
  From a broken home in Amarillo, Texas to a multi-award-winning recording artist, Jim Wilson’s journey is a captivating tale of showbiz glamour, personal tragedy, self-discovery, and dogged determination. And, as is typical of Jim Wilson, he’s turned out to be a pretty good wordsmith.
  
  Tuned-In: Memoirs of a Piano Man is a page-turner and a life-changer. It’s a self-help book in the form of an autobiography. It is entertaining, revealing and full of lessons for musicians, fans, and al

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