In this luxuriously illustrated volume, celebrated nature writer Mike Unwin and award-winning photographer David Tipling highlight sixty-seven different species of birds from around the world and explore how each has adapted to its ...
A gripping, literary recollection of a pilot's experiences during WWII.
Perceptive, honest, and often very funny, this immensely readable account of a young pilot's rites of passage from an untrained cadet to warweary aviator, from youthful innocence to manhood is...
Samuel Hynes served as a consultant on "The War," directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and appears on camera in several episodes. "The War" is a seven-part,...
In this WW II memoir destined to become a classic, Marine bomber pilot and Princeton professor Hynes relates his war experiences with the touch of a gifted storyteller--a rite of passage that took him from untrained cadet to war-weary ...