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Punk's War
- The Punk Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
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Punk’s War reveals the inner workings of the US Navy as only an insider can. An authentic and riveting thriller, it is a highly acclaimed novel of a fighter pilot’s experience in the era just before 9/11. As the US military enters another postconflict period, the themes of leadership during crisis and accomplishing the mission make Punk’s War more relevant than ever.
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Marine pilot Brad Austin and his carrier-based F-4 Phantom group fly into the heart of enemy territory daily without fear, but the rules of engagement hinder them nearly as much as the North Vietnamese. Restricted from attacking the enemy's MiG bases, Austin and the other American pilots are vulnerable to attack without the ability to retaliate, a weakness that tragically leads to the death of Austin's wingman. Consumed by the need to avenge his comrade, Austin goes one-on-one with the enemy in a battle that ultimately proves in war there can be no rules.
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4 out of 5 stars
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TO MY MIND
- By Kevin on 11-28-18
By: Joe Weber
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Fighter Pilot
- The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds
- By: Robin Olds, Christina Olds, Ed Rasimus
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,019
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,568
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,563
A larger-than-life hero with a towering personality, Robin Olds was a graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football Hall of Fame for his All-American performance for Army. In World War II, Olds quickly became a top fighter pilot and squadron commander by the age of 22—a double ace with twelve aerial victories. But it was in Vietnam where the man became a legend.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top Notch Audiobook
- By R. A. Frank on 10-08-10
By: Robin Olds, and others
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The Devil Dragon Pilot
- Ford Stevens Military-Aviation Thrillers, Book 1
- By: Lawrence Colby
- Narrated by: Christopher Raab
- Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 86
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 80
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Story4 out of 5 stars 79
Concealed deep within China's inland borders is one of the most secret airplanes ever flown, known as Devil Dragon. She's sleek, unbelievably fast, and mysterious - her test pilots have one mission in mind: make her test flights successful for operational use as soon as possible. Or sooner. But when strange transmissions of pilots are recorded without an aircraft appearing on radar and bizarre cell phone signals are detected at towers hundreds of miles apart, Ford Stevens is asked to take on the most dangerous assignment of his life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Book seems written by an amateur writer.
- By Kelly on 04-18-18
By: Lawrence Colby
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Ashes of Victory
- A Novel
- By: Joe Weber, R.J. Pineiro
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 194
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 179
The United States is under attack. From the sea and the sky, the devastating attacks come, crippling the US military's ability to respond. Thousands have been killed and injured. For President Cord Macklin, this is the greatest challenge of his life, greater than risking his life in the skies over Vietnam and greater than guiding the country through some of the most trying times. But none has been more trying than this. Below the sea, a predator stalks the pride of America's Navy: its aircraft carriers. Deadly and silent, this killer seems able to elude all efforts to find it.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Two stars deducted for poor editing
- By Michael Berg on 10-28-18
By: Joe Weber, and others
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Flying Through Midnight
- By: John T. Halliday
- Narrated by: William Dufris
- Length: 15 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 165
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 102
A powerhouse fusion of pathos and humor, brutal realism and intimate reflection, Flying Through Midnight is a landmark contribution to Vietnam War literature, revealing previously top-secret intelligence on the 606's night missions. Fast-paced, thrilling, and bitingly intelligent, Halliday's writing illuminates it all: the heart-pounding air battles, the close friendships, the crippling fear, and the astonishing final escape that made the telling of it possible.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Flying Through Midnight
- By Craig on 01-09-09
By: John T. Halliday
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Sea Stories
- My Life in Special Operations
- By: William H. McRaven
- Narrated by: William H. McRaven
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8,641
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7,841
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7,776
Admiral William H. McRaven is back with amazing stories of bravery and heroism from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Behind-the-scenes look at high level military life
- By N. on 10-23-19
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Hover
- By: Anne A. Wilson
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 130
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 130
Helicopter pilot Sara Denning joins an all-male navy battle group with little fanfare - and that's just the way she likes it. Her philosophy is simple - blend in, be competent, and above all, never do anything to stand out as a woman. But somewhere along the way, she lost herself - her feminine, easy-going soul now buried under so many defensive layers, she can't reach it anymore.
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5 out of 5 stars
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"You Knooow Him!!"
- By Empress Karen on 07-30-16
By: Anne A. Wilson
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The Edge of Honor
- By: P. T. Deutermann
- Narrated by: J. Charles, Sandra Burr
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 251
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 167
A man's duty...a woman's passion...The Edge of Honor cuts both ways. In this sweeping novel of the Vietnam War at sea and on the homefront, Lieutenant Brian Holcomb, smart, ambitious, honorable, and up for promotion, discovers that his ship - the USS John Bell Hood - hides a dangerous secret. What Brian does about it may end his career, or threaten the lives of hundreds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Effing Love P.T. Deutermann!!
- By Mobilis on 05-21-09
By: P. T. Deutermann
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Event
- By: David L. Golemon
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 16 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,044
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 939
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Story4 out of 5 stars 933
In the summer of 1947, an unidentified object crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. There were no survivors. Now it's happened again. But this time, two creatures have emerged from the wreckage alive.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Great Series.
- By Frank on 07-29-13
By: David L. Golemon
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Sudden Threat
- Threat, Book 1
- By: A. J. Tata
- Narrated by: Alexander Cendese
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 191
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 171
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 171
In December 2001, CIA paramilitary operative Matt Garrett is mysteriously pulled from Pakistan as he closes in for the kill of Al Qaeda senior leadership and is reassigned to a low-profile mission in the Philippines. But as he sifts through the wreckage of a downed U.S. C-130 cargo plane in the tangled jungle, he finds a dead U.S. Special Forces paratrooper who is not supposed to be there. Matt is quickly thrown into a contest of wits and resiliency in the uncharted rainforests of Mindanao.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Lots of action with a very weak plot
- By Wayne on 11-19-17
By: A. J. Tata
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Viper Pilot
- The Autobiography of One of America's Most Decorated Combat Pilots
- By: Dan Hampton
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,024
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,841
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,843
Sure to rank as one of the greatest aviation memoirs ever written, Viper Pilot is an Air Force legend's thrilling eyewitness account of modern air warfare. From 1986 to 2006, Lt. Col. Dan Hampton was a leading member of the Wild Weasels, the elite Air Force fighter squadrons whose mission is recognized as the most dangerous job in modern air combat. Weasels are the first planes sent into a war zone, flying deep behind enemy lines purposely seeking to draw fire from surface-to-air missiles and artillery. They must skillfully evade being shot down - and then return to destroy the threats, thereby making the skies safe for everyone else to follow.
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5 out of 5 stars
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FINALLY A Pilot Tells it Like it is!!
- By aaron on 10-26-12
By: Dan Hampton
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To the Limit
- An Air Cav Huey Pilot in Vietnam
- By: Tom A. Johnson
- Narrated by: David Drummond
- Length: 13 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 677
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 623
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Story5 out of 5 stars 619
From June 1967 to June 1968, Tom Johnson accumulated an astonishing 1,600 flying hours piloting the UH-1 "Iroquois" - better known as the "Huey" - as part of the famous First Air Cavalry Division. His battalion was one of the most decorated units of the Vietnam War, and helped redefine modern warfare. Johnson's riveting memoir takes us into key battles and rescue missions, including those for Hue and Khe Sanh. In harrowing detail, he tells of being shot down in the battle of A Shau Valley, of surviving enemy attacks during the Tet Offensive, and of a death-defying nighttime river rescue.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Huey pilot's perspective of the 67-68 Vietnam war.
- By Jim on 10-15-18
By: Tom A. Johnson
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Hunter Killer
- Inside America's Unmanned Air War
- By: T. Mark Mccurley, Kevin Maurer
- Narrated by: Holter Graham
- Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 289
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 265
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 266
The first-ever inside look at the US military’s secretive Remotely Piloted Aircraft program - equal parts techno-thriller, historical account, and war memoir. Remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), commonly referred to by the media as drones, are a mysterious and headline-making tool in the military’s counterterrorism arsenal. Their story has been pieced together by technology reporters, major newspapers, and on-the-ground accounts from the Middle East, but it has never been fully told by an insider.
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5 out of 5 stars
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No political Bias. Just a narration of modern soldier's perspective.
- By Irfan M. Ibrahim on 11-17-15
By: T. Mark Mccurley, and others
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Bogeys and Bandits
- The Making of a Fighter Pilot
- By: Robert Gandt
- Narrated by: Thomas Block
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 58
Americans are fascinated by the undeniable mystique of the elite world of Navy fighter pilots. In Bogeys and Bandits, Robert Gandt takes listeners on a thrilling ride in the FA-18 Hornet, one of the fastest, sleekest, and deadliest aircraft in the world. Gandt lived and worked with several pilots learning to fly the Hornet: the identical twins from Middle America; the computer nerd with a penchant for speed; the grandson of a Tuskegee Airman, trying to live up to a proud legacy; and two women dealing with the post-Tailhook world of the Navy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great book but the narrator...
- By AshliDF on 08-03-17
By: Robert Gandt
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The Shadows of Power
- By: James W. Huston
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 102
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 75
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 74
A small nation that bolsters the terrorist cause is flexing its military muscle in a far corner of the world. On a mission to the now-volatile Mediterranean, F/A-18 pilot Lieutenant Ed Stovic shoots down an Algerian MiG at the climax of a dramatic, high-stakes dogfight and becomes an overnight hero in the eyes of his countrymen - and the target of a zealot's revenge.
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4 out of 5 stars
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interesting insight
- By steven on 01-18-11
By: James W. Huston
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Deep Black
- Deep Black, Book 1
- By: Stephen Coonts, Jim DeFelice
- Narrated by: J. Charles
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 313
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 228
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Story4 out of 5 stars 229
A spy plane gathering data on a new Russian weapon is blown out of the sky by a mysterious MiG. Is it an accident or the start of the next world war? One U.S. agency has what it takes to find out - the National Security Agency and its covert operations team: DEEP BLACK.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Find a plot and stick with it
- By C. Stephens on 08-07-13
By: Stephen Coonts, and others
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4 out of 5 stars
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An Intense Military Thriller
- By Brian on 01-02-20
By: Peter Nealen
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Topgun Days
- Dogfighting, Cheating Death, and Hollywood Glory as One of America's Best Fighter Jocks
- By: Dave "Bio" Baranek
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Dave Baranek (callsign "Bio") was one of 451 young men to receive his Wings of Gold in 1980 as a naval flight officer. Four years later, seasoned by intense training and deployments in the tense confrontations of the Cold War, he became the only one of that initial group to rise to become an instructor at the navy's elite Fighter Weapons School. As a Topgun instructor, Bio was responsible for teaching the navy's and Marine Corps' best fighter pilots how to be even better. He schooled them in the classroom and then went head-to-head with them in the skies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Top Gun or Topgun
- By Randy on 02-19-13
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F-35
- The Inside Story of the Lightning II
- By: Tom Burbage, Betsy Clark, Adrian Pitman, and others
- Narrated by: Rob Reider
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21
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F-35 is the only inside look at the most advanced aircraft in the world and the historic project that built it, as told by those who were intimately involved in its design, testing, and production. Based on the authors' personal experience and over 100+ interviews, F-35 pulls back the curtain on one of the most heavily criticized government programs in history from start to finish.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring a story about process
- By BingoJones on 09-05-23
By: Tom Burbage, and others
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Flying in the Face of Fear
- A Fighter Pilot's Lessons on Leading with Courage
- By: Kim Campbell
- Narrated by: Erin deWard
- Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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In Flying in the Face of Fear: Lessons on Leading with Courage, former fighter pilot and retired Air Force Colonel Kim Campbell delivers an inspiring and practical discussion of leadership and decision-making. In the book, you'll follow the author's journey through the principles that got her through her twenty-four-year career in the high-stakes and high-risk world of aerial combat.
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5 out of 5 stars
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KC should have been the reader
- By Ben Bosma on 03-16-23
By: Kim Campbell
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Fata Morgana
- By: Steven R. Boyett, Ken Mitchroney
- Narrated by: Macleod Andrews
- Length: 12 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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At the height of the air war in Europe, Captain Joe Farley and the baseball-loving, wisecracking crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress Fata Morgana are in the middle of a harrowing bombing mission over eastern Germany when everything goes sideways. The bombs are still falling and flak is still exploding all around the 20-ton bomber as it is knocked like a bathtub duck into another world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best one I have heard in some time!
- By As happy as a monkey with two bananas in his hands on 10-10-17
By: Steven R. Boyett, and others
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Scorpion in the Sea
- By: P. T. Deutermann
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 23 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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It's Montgomery's war now. Brash and unconventional, Mike Montgomery is hardly regulation Navy. At his side, Diane Martinson, the Chief of Staff's wife - smart, tough...and his lover. Under his command, the USS Goldsborough - a World War II-era destroyer thundering toward a showdown of water and fire. With the arrival of P. T. Deutermann-retired Navy captain, former arms control negotiator within the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and ex-commander of at destroyer squadron - today's naval thriller just climbed to a whole new level.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Just another great story from PTD - well performed.
- By Peter on 01-01-21
By: P. T. Deutermann
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- Robert Lion
- 05-02-22
Enjoyable!
Ward Carroll is an excellent story teller.
He walks the reader through an intimate and often exiting portrayal of life as a Tomcat pilot onboard an aircraft carrier.
Ninety percent of my reading is non-fiction.
But once in a while I discover a novel that rings true to my practical and emotional sensibilities.
I am looking forward to the next book in this trilogy.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-02-22
great story
loved everything about this book. the author also has a YouTube channel. he is a navy veteran himself. really got my emotions as well.
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- Career Soldier
- 12-30-22
I love the realism, I love the intensity!
This book is simply excellent. Ward Carroll knows the life and very ably puts it into words! The story is fast-paced but able for the novice to the world of the Navy and naval aviation to understand! I highly recommend reading this book!!
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- Allen McKnight
- 05-31-22
Tomcats!
This was a great book. I'm not sure if it's because of my love for the F-14, or because I love aviation in general, but I could vividly picture the scenes described in this book. Exhilarating stuff!
Ward "Mooch" Carrol was a Tomcat RIO and runs a great and informative YouTube channel.
on to the next one!
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- Anonymous User
- 07-31-22
Very entertaining
I thoroughly enjoyed the slice-of-life perspective in this story. I usually don’t listen to these kinds of stories but this one convinced me to give the other 2 stories done by Ward Carroll a chance. Fun read overall.
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- Robert Alexander
- 01-15-23
Thumbs up
Excellent tale with some occasional humor mixed in to go with the story line. Highly recommend.
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- Willard O Kirste
- 05-13-22
I think I served with these guys
The entire gang is there: the douchebag careerist, the passed over old hats, the new guy learning the ropes, and the O3s that make the mission happen. VF-104 is the quintessential flying squadron.
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- Ryan Gorman
- 07-10-22
Great fighter pilot story
Good story with good characters and fun interactions based on Mr. Carrols experience’s as a RIO. Great technical and cultural references to the Navy and Aviation.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-17-22
Exceptionally Good!
Start to finish enjoyment. The life of aboard an aircraft carrier and an F-14 squadron. Well written by someone who was there. The narration was excellent as well. I can't wait to listen to the follow on books. Well done!
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- Purplehayes
- 01-26-23
Great Story!
As a retired military member I could relate to several aspects of this story. Well written. I’ll get the rest of the series
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