- Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Forge Books (May 16 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0812561686
- ISBN-13: 978-0812561685
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 154 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #784,573 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Harold Coyle takes us to the fierce fighting in the Pacific, where the Japanese and the Americans clash over a strategic airfield on the island of Guadalcanal. Their battlefield will earn the nickname Bloody Ridge from both sides.
Harold Robbins takes us back to a time when victory could be had on the Normandy beaches if a relunctant hero managed to stop the Master of Europe---with his blood.
R. J. Piniero brings the Eastern Front to light as a young American pilot is ordered to train Russian pilots in the new American-made P-39D Aircobras during the final months of the brutal battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942.
Harold Robbins takes us back to a time when victory could be had on the Normandy beaches if a relunctant hero managed to stop the Master of Europe---with his blood.
R. J. Piniero brings the Eastern Front to light as a young American pilot is ordered to train Russian pilots in the new American-made P-39D Aircobras during the final months of the brutal battle of Stalingrad in the winter of 1942.
About the Author
Stephen Coonts is the author of seven New York Times bestselling novels, the first of which was the classic flying tale, Flight of the Intruder, which spent more than six months at the top of The New York Times bestseller list. His novels have been published around the world and translated into more than a dozen languages. He was honored by the U.S. Naval Institute with its Author of the Year Award in 1986. His latest novel is America. He is also the editor of two anthologies, War in the Air and The New York Times bestselling Combat. He resides with his wife, Deborah, in Nevada.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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It's an airplane read!, Feb 19 2006
By D. F SHAFER "don" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Victory - Volume 2: Into the Fire (Mass Market Paperback)
Okay, okay - it's has a number of glaring technical, weapons elated problems. I'm a pilot and a Vietnam era US Air Force officer. I also had my first flight in my grandfather's 1930's vintage Stearman by getting strapped standing up in the front cockpit. Open cockpit WWII era fighters flying more than 300 knots had worst than just visibility problems for the pilot. And, planes that are on fire and have a mid air collision with a German bomber usually do not allow the pilot to simply glide to an emergency landing. Next to that, confusing the aerocoupe side door to a canopy on the Bell Airocobra P-39 was a minor faux pas.
Well endowed German stewardresses on a German WWII military transport? Come on Mr. Robbins. And, Mr. Coyle, from every Marine I've ever spoken to - my uncle landed on all the WWII Pacific campaigns as a Marine Quartermaster - no one ever left a BAR in a dead Marine's position. The fire power was too necessary.
But, other than all that, this is a good read for a long airline trip. It will take you mind off of the terribvle service, cramped seats and make you with you were on that German WWII transport!
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Don't Waste Your Money, Aug 17 2005
By Robert Nelson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Victory - Volume 2: Into the Fire (Mass Market Paperback)
Firstly, let me say that I admire Stephen Coonts as a man, a pilot and as an author. His novel "Flight of the Intruder" and his flight log "The Cannibal Queen" sit on my bookshelf beside master pilot-authors the likes of Richard Bach, Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Ernest K. Gann.
"Victory - Into the Fire" is a compilation of mediocre war novelettes "Edited and Introduced by Stephen Coonts".
Sadly, the book is a testimony to the growing trend of cross-marketing by excellent authors who lend their good names to lesser authors: all in the quest for increased profits and name exposure.
tsk... tsk... tsk...
Fiction requires the reader to suspend disbelief. Historical fiction is more difficult still, as inaccuracies shake the knowledgeable reader back to reality.
Want to write about specific aircraft? You had better do your homework.
Note to Editor Stephen Coonts and Author Rogelio J. Pineiro...
The Bell P-39 Airacobra was a SINGLE ENGINE aircraft. Thus, pilots cannot advance "the throttles" because there is ONLY ONE THROTTLE on the P-39.
Got that, Pineiro? One engine = One throttle.
Bailing out of the P-39 was a very big deal and well-feared by pilots. Instead of a jettisonable canopy like most contemporary WW-II aircraft, the P-39 had a door like that of an automobile. Even if the pilot was successful in dumping the door, many ended up being smashed by the horizontal tail that patiently waited for pilots exiting the cockpit at higher speeds.
Thus, when Pineiro's protagonist has the "canopy"..."blown off" (page 267) and "drops out" of the P-39, it shows that the author didn't even bother doing basic research.
Oh.... and another small point for Mr. Coonts and Pinerio.... No German Jets were in combat over Stalingrad in 1942 - or at any other time. AND...the Messerschmitt 109G was NOT a jet fighter.
I want my money back.
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