Barrett Tillman, Author Simon & Schuster $28 (316p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8440-7
This ambitious and successful work comprehensively analyzes the Allied air offensive against Japan that began with ace pilot James Doolittle’s raid of April 1942. The Army Air Corps’s deployment in 1944 of the long-distance B-29...
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Barrett Tillman, Author Bantam Books $20 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07528-1
The hero of this impressive retro-techno-thriller, too, is an airplane. Douglas Dauntless dive-bombers turned the tide of the Pacific War by sinking four Japanese carriers at Midway, and played a crucial role in the Guadalcanal campaign. Tillman, a...
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Barrett Tillman. Regnery, $29.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-62157-208-4
Noted aviation historian Tillman (Whirlwind) has written the long-overdue first history of the little-known U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, whose mission focus during WWII was southern and eastern Europe. It is a solid chronological history of the unit,...
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Barrett Tillman, Author, Wesley K. Clark, Foreword by . Palgrave $21.95 (205p) ISBN 978-1-4039-7135-7
The general in charge of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Curtis Emerson LeMay witnessed the beginning of the age of nuclear weaponry. As commander of the Strategic Air Command during the Cold War, he saw its consequences in the escalating...
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Barrett Tillman, Author, Stephen Coonts, Editor, Ralph Peters, Contribution by . Forge $27.95 (768p) ISBN 978-0-312-87462-9
This hefty, thoroughly absorbing anthology, a companion to Coonts's Combat, gathers novellas about WWII from 10 leading thriller and military fiction writers. Some are character driven, like "Blood Bond" by the late Harold Robbins, about
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Harold Coyle, Author, Barrett Tillman, Author . Forge $24.95 (331p) ISBN 978-0-765-31371-3
In this promising first of a new series about the resurgence of the second oldest profession, the mercenary, in the guise of PMC (private military contractors), bestseller Coyle (They Are Soldiers
) teams with aviation historian and novelist Tillman
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Harold Coyle, Author, Barrett Tillman, Author . Forge $24.95 (351p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1372-0
The gripping second Strategic Solutions Inc. military thriller from Coyle and Tillman (after Pandora’s Legion
) details the workings of a PMC, or private military contractor. The U.S. government, which wants plausible deniability if things go...
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Harold Coyle, Author, Barrett Tillman, Author . Tor $24.95 (347p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1373-7
In Coyle and Tillman's second thriller to chronicle the exploits of Strategic Solutions Inc. (after Pandora's Legion
), the private military contractor that usually does the jobs that the U.S. administration wants to deny finds that such...
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