""Masters of the Air" is a fresh new account of the incredible rise
of the American air force from young men learning their trade on
the job in combat to an irresistible force that swept the vaunted
Luftwaffe from the skies. Author Donald L. Miller knits together
the big events of the bombing campaign with illuminating individual
human stories of the heroes who lived and died over Germany." --
Walter J. Boyne, former director, National Air and Space Museum
""Masters of the Air" is a piece of history that accurately and
comprehensively tells the story of the Eighth Air Force going "mano
a mano" against a tough and determined foe. The incredible cost to
both sides is recounted in riveting detail. It left me shaken." --
Lt. Gen. Bernard E. Trainor, USMC (Ret.) and coauthor of "Cobra II:
The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq"
""Masters of the Air" is masterful narrative history, the elegantly
interwoven story of the men and boys who first took the war to the
heart of Germany. Vivid and meticulous, judicious but not
judgmental, Donald L. Miller chronicles the air war over Europe in
all its heroism and horror." -- Geoffrey C. Ward, author of
"Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson"
"Miller's work is always extraordinary but this large volume is
especially remarkable for its valuable recovery of details, like
all the psychiactric ruin of the many bomber boys assigned to kill
German civilians. This is a rare account of the American Eighth Air
Force, and with so many readers hoodwinked by fantasies of The Good
War, it deserves wide acceptance and ultimate enshrinement as a
classic." -- Paul Fussell, author of "The Great War and Modern
Memory"
"Over the first years of World War II, the only American casualties
on European soil were flyboys shot out of the sky. Long before
Normandy, America's bomber boys waged the Allies' longest WWII
campaign and brought the war to Hitler. Now we are fortunate that
the incomparable Donald Miller has brought the memory of these
Masters of the Air back to us." -- James Bradley, author of "Flags
of Our Fathers" and "Flyboys"
"When I learned that Don Miller had written a history of the air
war against Germany, I knew that readers would be transported as
virtual eye witnesses to this aerial battle field. His gripping
reconstruction of what was happening in the planes is matched by
the best account yet of what the bombings were doing to Germans on
the ground. This book bears the Miller trademark: a strong
narrative supported by solid history." -- Joseph E. Persico, author
of "Eleventh Month, Eleventh Day Eleventh Hour: Armistice Day
1918"
""Masters of the Air" is a direct hit."-- Allan R. Millett,
Director, Eisenhower Center for American Studies, University of New
Orleans
"Donald L. Miller's "Masters of the Air" is a stunning achievement.
The compound effect of the book's narrative vitality and attention
to human detail is terrific in all the meanings of the word -
terrifying, extraordinary, highly admirable. What a story it is!"--
David McCullough
"For sixty years we have waited for a history to equal the epic
saga of the Eighth Air Force's struggle with fighters, flak and
weather on a battlefield moving at three miles per minute five
miles above the earth's crust. Now it is here. With brilliant
artistry, Don Miller paints the story from the pallet of the voices
of the men who manned the planes or waited them out."-- Richard B.
Frank, author of "Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese
Empire"
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