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Surprised at Being Alive
Robert Curtis
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Description for Surprised at Being Alive
Thrilling helicopter exploits with the Royal Navy. Sometimes you do everything right, but it just isn't your day. Num Pages: 320 pages, 27 b/w. BIC Classification: JWMV3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 626.
Thrilling helicopter exploits with the Royal Navy.
Sometimes you do everything right, but it just isn’t your day. A part fails and your helicopter comes apart in flight, or, another aircraft runs into you and the pieces of both fall to the ground below, or the enemy gunner pulls the trigger at just the right moment and his rounds find your aircraft in exactly the right spot to take it out of the sky. Whichever way it happens, it wasn’t your day.
Which is why, after 24 years and over 5,000 flight hours with four armed services, ... Read more
Thrilling helicopter exploits with the Royal Navy.
Sometimes you do everything right, but it just isn’t your day. A part fails and your helicopter comes apart in flight, or, another aircraft runs into you and the pieces of both fall to the ground below, or the enemy gunner pulls the trigger at just the right moment and his rounds find your aircraft in exactly the right spot to take it out of the sky. Whichever way it happens, it wasn’t your day.
Which is why, after 24 years and over 5,000 flight hours with four armed services, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Casemate Books United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781612002750
SKU
V9781612002750
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-2
Reviews for Surprised at Being Alive
A superb personal account of one man's experiences in the Vietnam War, all the more remarkable given the statistics for surviving in the air battles. A riveting read.
Books Monthly 30/01/2015
In this excellent new book Robert Curtis gives a compelling account of his service in wartime and beyond, and the combat missions he flew out of Phu ... Read more
Books Monthly 30/01/2015
In this excellent new book Robert Curtis gives a compelling account of his service in wartime and beyond, and the combat missions he flew out of Phu ... Read more