The Man Called Brown Condor: The Forgotten History of an African American Fighter Pilot - Couverture rigide

Simmons, Thomas E.

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ISBN 10 : 162087217X ISBN 13 : 9781620872178

Editeur : Skyhorse, 2013

Synopsis

How did a black child, growing up in segregationist Mississippi during the early 1900s, become the commander of the Imperial Ethiopian Air Corps during the brutal Italo-Ethiopian War of 1935? In this gripping, never-before-told tale, biographer Thoma

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À propos de l'auteur

Thomas E. Simmons grew up in Mississippi and attended the Marion Military Institute, the U. S. Naval Academy, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Alabama. He served as commercial captain of a seventy-foot sailing vessel, has been a pilot since the age of sixteen, has flown professionally, and participated in air shows flying aerobatics in open-cockpit biplanes. In 1960, he served as an artillery officer in Korea. He and his wife live in Gulfport, Mississippi.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Skyhorse
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 162087217X
• ISBN 13: 9781620872178
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Simon and Schuster Netherlands BV; info@simonandschuster.nl; ; Herculesplein 96; Utrecht; 3584 AA; Pays-Bas