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Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot by Smith, Starr
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- Product Group
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- ISBN
- 0760328242
- Book Title
- Jimmy Stewart : Bomber Pilot
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Quarto Publishing Group USA
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Format
- Perfect
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Features
- Revised
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, Military / United States, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Military
- Item Width
- 5.7in
- Item Weight
- 13.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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Of all the celebrities who served their country during World War II -and they were legion -Jimmy Stewart was unique. On December 7th, when the attack on Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of war, Stewart was already in uniform - as a private on guard duty south of San Francisco at the Army Air Corps Moffet Field. Seeing war on the horizon, Jimmy Stewart, at the height of his fame after Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and his Oscar-winning turn in The Phadelphia Story in 1940, had enlisted several months earlier. Jimmy Stewart, Bomber Pilot chronicles his long journey to become a bomber pilot in combat. Author Starr Smith, the intelligence officer assigned to the movie star, recounts how Stewart's first battles were with the Air Corps high command, who insisted on keeping the naturally talented pilot out of harm's way as an instructor pilot for B-17 Flying Fortresses and B-24 Liberators. By 1944, however, Stewart managed to get assigned to a Liberator squadron that was deploying to England to join the mighty Eighth Air Force. Once in the thick of it, he rose to command his own squadron and flew twenty combat missions, including one to Berlin. My father would feel honored by this book. -Kelly Stewart Harcourt, daughter of Jimmy Stewart We would have made Jimmy a group commander [equivalent to an army regiment] if the war had lasted another month. - General Jimmy Doolittle. An excellent biography of a distinguished airman and fine human being. - Roger Freeman, author of The Mighty Eighth: A History of the U.S. 8th Air Force. How wonderful it is that Starr Smith has finally directed a literary light on the personal history of Jimmy Stewart. . . . I welcomed Starr's book. It is needed and wanted. Bravo! - Gay Talese. This is a very well researched and written book. . . . It fills a place in history about no mere actor but a courageous and selfless man, Brigadier General Jimmy Stewart, USAF. - General Michael E. Ryan, former Chief of Staff of the Air Force. I have met a few movie stars, but of them all, I think that Jimmy Stewart was most like those modest heroes he portrayed. Now journalist Starr Smith has raised the curtain on Stewarts gallant service as a bomber pilot and air combat commander in World War II. -Walter Cronkite, from the Foreword
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Publisher
Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN-10
0760328242
ISBN-13
9780760328248
eBay Product ID (ePID)
54365496
Product Key Features
Book Title
Jimmy Stewart : Bomber Pilot
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Features
Revised
Topic
Military / World War II, Military / United States, Entertainment & Performing Arts, Military
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.7in
Item Weight
13.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
D790.22
Edition Description
Revised Edition
Reviews
WWII History, March 2007 "It goes without saying that James Maitland Stewart was one of Hollywood's greatest and most enduring stars. Be he was also an American patriod of the first order ... Veteran journalist Starr Smith has captured the true essence of the man in this superbly written and profusely illustrated biography ... With so many of the current generation of Hollywood stars decidedly antiwar and antimilitary, this book is a refreshing, nostalgic look back at a time when personal fame, money and safety took a back-seat to the ideals of duty, honor and country. Not to be missed.", WWII History, "March 2007 "It goes without saying that James Maitland Stewart was one of Hollywood's greatest and most enduring stars. Be he was also an American patriod of the first order ... Veteran journalist Starr Smith has captured the true essence of the man in this superbly written and profusely illustrated biography ... With so many of the current generation of Hollywood stars decidedly antiwar and antimilitary, this book is a refreshing, nostalgic look back at a time when personal fame, money and safety took a back-seat to the ideals of duty, honor and country. Not to be missed.", WWII History,March 2007 "It goes without saying that James Maitland Stewart was one of Hollywood's greatest and most enduring stars. Be he was also an American patriod of the first order … Veteran journalist Starr Smith has captured the true essence of the man in this superbly written and profusely illustrated biography … With so many of the current generation of Hollywood stars decidedly antiwar and antimilitary, this book is a refreshing, nostalgic look back at a time when personal fame, money and safety took a back-seat to the ideals of duty, honor and country. Not to be missed.", WWII History, March 2007 "It goes without saying that James Maitland Stewart was one of Hollywood's greatest and most enduring stars. Be he was also an American patriod of the first order … Veteran journalist Starr Smith has captured the true essence of the man in this superbly written and profusely illustrated biography … With so many of the current generation of Hollywood stars decidedly antiwar and antimilitary, this book is a refreshing, nostalgic look back at a time when personal fame, money and safety took a back-seat to the ideals of duty, honor and country. Not to be missed.", WWII History, March 2007 “It goes without saying that James Maitland Stewart was one of Hollywood’s greatest and most enduring stars. Be he was also an American patriod of the first order & Veteran journalist Starr Smith has captured the true essence of the man in this superbly written and profusely illustrated biography & With so many of the current generation of Hollywood stars decidedly antiwar and antimilitary, this book is a refreshing, nostalgic look back at a time when personal fame, money and safety took a back-seat to the ideals of duty, honor and country. Not to be missed.�, WWII History, "March 2007 " It goes without saying that James Maitland Stewart was one of Hollywood' s greatest and most enduring stars. Be he was also an American patriod of the first order ... Veteran journalist Starr Smith has captured the true essence of the man in this superbly written and profusely illustrated biography ... With so many of the current generation of Hollywood stars decidedly antiwar and antimilitary, this book is a refreshing, nostalgic look back at a time when personal fame, money and safety took a back-seat to the ideals of duty, honor and country. Not to be missed."
Copyright Date
2006
Dewey Decimal
940.54/4973/092 B
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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