The Great Blue Yonder

Author : Alex Shearer
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780330530514

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The Great Blue Yonder by Alex Shearer Pdf

The Great Blue Yonder by Alex Shearer is the quirky, gentle journey of a boy stuck between looking back, and moving on. 'You'll be sorry when I'm dead.' That's what Harry said to his sister, before the incident with the lorry. And now he is just that – dead. And he wishes more than anything that he hadn't said it. He wishes he could say sorry. And say goodbye to everyone he left behind – his mum, his dad, his best friend Pete. . . even Jelly Donkins, the class bully. Now he's on the Other Side, waiting to move on to the Great Blue Yonder. But he doesn't know how to get there – until he meets Arthur, a small boy in a top hat who's been dead for years, who helps him say goodbye. . .

Author : Allan T. Stein
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781603445979

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Into the Wild Blue Yonder by Allan T. Stein Pdf

"Allan T. Stein idolized his uncle, a pilot in the Great War. So in 1943, in the midst of the Second World War, he left Texas A & M University for Lackland Air Field to learn to fly. By the time he retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1969, Stein had flown everything from BT-13s and B-24s to B-52s and C-47s. During World War II, he flew missions over China and the Sea of Japan, and by V-J Day, he had participated in eight campaigns and logged 347 hours in combat. Stein later spent one year in Vietnam as operations officer for the 360 TEWS (Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron), which used refitted C-47s to monitor and locate Vietcong units. He ended his career as inspector general of the Civil Air Patrol." "Stein considers himself to have been an ordinary airman, not a hero. But he was also a seasoned pilot and a conscientious officer with a strong sense of right and wrong. After a young pilot he had certified died in an accident, Stein made it a practice to fail all but the best candidates. He was just as disgusted with the corruption he encountered in the Civil Air Patrol as he was with the tendentious reporters he met in Saigon's Hotel Caravelle." "Although he met his share of cowards and scoundrels, Stein loved to fly and he loved the air force. He was the sort of officer his superiors trusted not to make mistakes, but he was not the sort to rise to high rank. What he offers here is an account of a typical career as an air force officer, complete with its frustrations, moral dilemmas, and the occasional harrowing experience."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Nick Kotz
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : B-1 bomber
ISBN : UOM:39015020640275

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Wild Blue Yonder by Nick Kotz Pdf

Author : Rob Morris,Ian Hawkins
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597977173

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The Wild Blue Yonder and Beyond by Rob Morris,Ian Hawkins Pdf

The complete history of a legendary World War II bomb group

Author : Jack B. Rochester
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781627876186

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Wild Blue Yonder by Jack B. Rochester Pdf

Over 650 Vietnam War novels have been published, mostly dark tales from the war zone. In Wild Blue Yonder, Airman Nathaniel Hawthorne Flowers goes not to Vietnam but Germany, straight into a military Catch-22. His assignment: writing stories for the Stars and Stripes newspaper that will never see print. Nate's adventure deepens as he and his fellow troops try to understand why they're there, the military mindset, and the massive social disruption roiling 1960's America. Existential, psychedelic, funny, and laced with rock 'n' roll, Wild Blue Yonder is the story of Nate's quest for personal and spiritual values while trying to learn the meaning of family, friendship, and the love of the girl he left behind.

Author : Travis Nichols
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1566892414

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Off We Go Into the Wild Blue Yonder by Travis Nichols Pdf

A picturesque story of modern love, old flames, and the long shadow of history.

Author : Jean Thompson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781439129982

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Wide Blue Yonder by Jean Thompson Pdf

A National Book Award finalist for her story collection Who Do You Love, Jean Thompson towers into the stratosphere with her new novel, Wide Blue Yonder. It is the summer of 1999, and something big and bad is coming to Springfield, Illinois, "the place the Weather lived." Wide Blue Yonder is a novel about weather in all its permutations -- climatic, emotional, even metaphysical. Our guides through this summer of blazing heat and fearsome storms compose an unlikely quartet, each preparing in some measure for the end of the world. Uncle Harvey believes he is the Weather Channel's "Local Forecast." Yet even an arsenal of meteorological facts and figures can't stanch his existential fears. Harvey's niece, Josie, is fixed with a different predicament. She's seventeen, with nowhere to get to in the Land of Lincoln except into deep trouble. Josie's mother, Elaine, feigns cheerful efficiency, desperately masking a far more urgent quest. And then there's the loner Rolando, who hails from Los Angeles. A human storm system fueled by boundless rage, Rolando is on course to make Springfield the ground zero of his wrath. Newsweek memorably described Thompson's previous collection, Who Do You Love, as "a beautiful book, but a hell of a sad one." Wide Blue Yonder burns brighter, yet moves in the same mysterious ways.

Author : Susan L. Gemmill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1939919630

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Blue Yonder by Susan L. Gemmill Pdf

In spring 1942, eighteen-year-old Bill Gemmill was eager to serve his country. After a recruiter stamped his paperwork "Deferred," Bill reluctantly agreed to pursue a college football scholarship. It was the crash of a ferried bomber behind his frat house that changed his life and spurred him on to war. Following fourteen months of training, Bill's vision of fighting from the air finally took shape as his bombardier insignia was pinned by the girl he had to leave behind. Within a month, he and his crew were on their way to Southern Italy. After more than twenty successful missions, on 22 November 1944, disaster struck: Bill and his crew were hit badly. Unable to re-cross the Alps, the decision was made to abandon ship. Parachuting into the Yugoslavian countryside, Bill found himself alone. Would he find his way back to Italy or end up in the hands of German allies? Would he be reunited with his crew? Ultimately, would he survive? Like so many veterans, Bill was reluctant to tell his story but later in life, he opened up to his daughter. Blue Yonder is Bill's story of becoming a man in the midst of defending his country ... as seen through Susan Gemmill's eyes.

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743223096

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The Wild Blue by Stephen E. Ambrose Pdf

Examines the lives of the pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners chosen by the Air Force to embark on the most dangerous missions during World War II.

Author : David Lubar
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781429962698

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The Battle of the Red Hot Pepper Weenies by David Lubar Pdf

A girl doesn't have a date for the school dance—until her dad makes one for her in his lab. "Lily—meet Stitchy." A family enjoys a nice Thanksgiving dinner—until they are interrupted by a torrent of turkeys out for revenge. A princess meets a pea-brained suitor. And the battle of two red hot pepper weenies ends in flames. Critically-acclaimed author and master of the macabre David Lubar returns from a journey into the darkest depths of his brain with thirty-five more warped and creepy tales. And in the tradition of the three previous Weenie collections—In the Land of the Lawn Weenies, Invasion of the Road Weenies, and The Curse of the Campfire Weenies—he reveals the inspiration behind each story at the end of the book. Don't be a weenie. Read these stories...if you dare! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Lonnie Wheeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1882203208

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Blue Yonder by Lonnie Wheeler Pdf

What Hoosiers did for Indiana basketball, this perceptive title does for the fantastic culture of basketball in Kentucky. Never before has a book looked so closely into the soul of Kentucky basketball.

Author : Carl Gamble
Publisher : Booklocker.com
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1634918681

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My Blue Yonder by Carl Gamble Pdf

My Blue Yonder takes you into author Carl Gamble's boyhood home, the cockpit of his crippled plane, and his PTSD. You fly with him to rescue men adrift on Lake Superior, refuel combat aircraft at 400 MPH over the Gulf of Tonkin, and negotiate with a hijacker while flying near Florida...

Author : Martin W. Bowman
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0304364665

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Wild Blue Yonder by Martin W. Bowman Pdf

Lavishly illustrated, this fascinating and entertaining volume transports you back in time to hear firsthand accounts culled from hundreds of diaries, letters, and interviews with veterans. These are the captivating stories of the American airmen and British civilians and service personnel of World War II. In 1942, when the U.S. forces arrived in England, the young Americans were puzzled, amazed, and exasperated by the mysteries of British speech, food, manners--and plumbing, and the British were equally surprised by American ways. From decorated pilots to British civilians who, as children, were entertained on U.S. bases, come stories of comic cultural misunderstanding and terrifying bomber missions over Germany. This unique adventure celebrates the courage and spirit of the U.S. 8th Air Force and the friends they made in Britain.

Author : Stephen E. Ambrose
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780743217521

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The Wild Blue by Stephen E. Ambrose Pdf

Stephen E. Ambrose, acclaimed author of Band of Brothers and Undaunted Courage, carries us along in the crowded and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to destroy the German war machine during World War II. The young men who flew the B-24s over Germany in World War II fought against horrific odds, and, in The Wild Blue, Ambrose recounts their extraordinary heroism, skill, daring, and comradeship with vivid detail and affection. Ambrose describes how the Army Air Forces recruited, trained, and selected the elite few who would undertake the most demanding and dangerous jobs in the war. These are the boys—turned pilots, bombardiers, navigators, and gunners of the B-24s—who suffered over fifty percent casualties. With his remarkable gift for bringing alive the action and tension of combat, Ambrose carries us along in the crowded, uncomfortable, and dangerous B-24s as their crews fought to the death through thick black smoke and deadly flak to reach their targets and destroy the German war machine. Twenty-two-year-old George McGovern, who was to become a United States senator and a presidential candidate, flew thirty-five combat missions (all the Army would allow) and won the Distinguished Flying Cross. We meet him and his mates, his co-pilot killed in action, and crews of other planes. Many went down in flames. As Band of Brothers and Citizen Soldiers portrayed the bravery and ultimate victory of the American soldiers from Normandy on to Germany, The Wild Blue illustrates the enormous contribution that these young men of the Army Air Forces made to the Allied victory.

Author : Dick Harmon,Steve Cameron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1886110336

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Wild Blue Yonder by Dick Harmon,Steve Cameron Pdf

The soaring saga and official history of Brigham Young University football, what some people have called the Mormon Notre Dame.