Delivering a Band of Brothers in the skies, Miller deftly mixes the strategic with the personal, offering revealing and unforgettable stories about Americas Bomber Boys who Fought in the air war Against the Nazis.
It ends with a vivid description of the grisly hunger marches captured airmen were forced to make near the end of th.
Masters of the Air is a story of life in wartime England and in the German prison camps, where tens of thousands of airmen spent part of the war.
Until Allied soldiers crossed into Germany in the final months of the war, it was the only battle Fought inside the German homeland.
The Anglo-American bombing campaign Against Nazi Germany was the longest military campaign of World War II, a war within a war.
And the air war was filmed by Oscar-winning director William Wyler and covered by reporters like Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite, all of whom flew combat missions with the men.
The actor Jimmy Stewart was a Bomber boy, and so was the King of Hollywood, Clark Gable.
The Bomber crews were an elite group of warriors who were a microcosm of America--white America, anyway.
But they had a much greater chance of dying than ground soldiers.
Unlike infantrymen, Bomber Boys slept on clean sheets, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the swing music of Glenn Miller\'s Air Force band, which toured US air bases in England.
Air combat was deadly but intermittent: periods of inactivity and anxiety were followed by short bursts of fire and fear.
Fighting at 25,000 feet in thin, freezing air that no warriors had ever encountered before, Bomber crews battled new kinds of assaults on body and mind.
With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes you on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people.
Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American Bomber Boys in World War II who brought the war to Hitler\'s doorstep.
The Masters of the Air miniseries will be the companion to Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg\'s Band of Brothers and The Pacific.
Soon to be a major television event from Apple TV, Masters of the Air is the riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II, the story of the young men who flew the bombers that helped bring Nazi Germany to its knees, brilliantly told by historian and World War II expert Donald Miller.
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Delivering a Band of Brothers in the skies, Miller deftly mixes the strategic with the personal, offering revealing and unforgettable stories about Americas Bomber Boys who Fought in the air war Against the Nazis
