空战群英（电影版） Masters of the Air Mti: America's Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany (Media Tie-In)

基本信息

Format:Paperback 688 pages

Publisher:Simon & Schuster

Imprint:Simon & Schuster

ISBN:9781668011867

Published:23 Jan 2024

Weight:694g

Dimensions:235 x 156 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

历史学家兼二战专家唐纳德·L·米勒 (Donald L. Miller) 精彩地讲述了二战中美国第八空军的引人入胜的历史，以及那些驾驶轰炸机帮助击败敌人并解放欧洲的年轻人的历史。 《空战群英》流媒体系列由奥斯汀·巴特勒和卡勒姆·特纳主演，由《兄弟连》和《太平洋》的传奇二人组汤姆·汉克斯和史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格制作。

《空战群英》讲述了二战期间美国轰炸机小伙子们的深刻个人故事，他们将战争带到了家门口。 唐纳德·米勒凭借小说的叙事力量，带您穿越柏林、汉诺威和德累斯顿上空充满大火的悲惨旅程，并描述了轰炸给德国人民带来的可怕代价。

在 25,000 英尺高空，在战士们从未遇到过的稀薄、冰冷的空气中作战，轰炸机机组人员与身体和精神上的新型攻击作斗争。 空战是致命的，但间歇性的：一段时间的不活动和焦虑之后是短暂的火灾和恐惧。 与步兵不同，轰炸机男孩睡在干净的床单上，在当地酒吧喝啤酒，并随着格伦·米勒空军乐队的摇摆音乐跳舞，该乐队曾在英国的美国空军基地巡回演出。 但他们的死亡机会比地面士兵大得多。

轰炸机机组人员是一群精英战士，他们是美国的缩影——无论如何，美国白人。 演员吉米·斯图尔特是一名炸弹男孩，“好莱坞王”克拉克·盖博也是如此。 这场空战由奥斯卡获奖导演威廉·惠勒拍摄，并由安迪·鲁尼和沃尔特·克朗凯特等记者进行报道，他们都与这些人一起执行战斗任务。 英美对德国的轰炸行动是第二次世界大战中漫长的军事行动，是一场战争中的战争。 在战争的末后几个月盟军士兵进入德国之前，这是在德国本土进行的战斗。

《空战群英》是“一项令人惊叹的成就”（大卫·麦卡洛），是对战时英国和德国战俘营生活的“全新描述”（沃尔特·博伊恩，史密森航空航天博物馆前馆长）。 数千名飞行员参加了战争的一部分。 它的结尾生动地描述了被俘飞行员在战争接近尾声时被迫穿越被炸弹摧毁的国家的可怕饥饿行军。

The riveting history of the American Eighth Air Force in World War II and the young men who flew the bombers that helped beat the enemy and liberate Europe, brilliantly told by historian and World War II expert Donald L. Miller. The Masters of the Air streaming series stars Austin Butler and Callum Turner, and is produced by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, the legendary duo behind Band of Brothers and The Pacific.

Masters of the Air is the deeply personal story of the American bomber boys in World War II who brought the war to doorstep. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald Miller takes you on a harrowing ride through the fire-filled skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden and describes the terrible cost of bombing for the German people. 

Fighting at 25,000 feet in thin, freezing air that no warriors had ever encountered before, bomber crews battled new kinds of assaults on body and mind. Air combat was deadly but intermittent: periods of inactivity and anxiety were followed by short bursts of fire and fear. Unlike infantrymen, bomber boys slept on clean sheets, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the swing music of Glenn Miller's Air Force band, which toured US air bases in England. But they had a much greater chance of dying than ground soldiers.

The bomber crews were an elite group of warriors who were a microcosm of America--white America, anyway. The actor Jimmy Stewart was a bomber boy, and so was the "King of Hollywood," Clark Gable. And the air war was filmed by Oscar-winning director William Wyler and covered by reporters like Andy Rooney and Walter Cronkite, all of whom flew combat missions with the men. The Anglo-American bombing campaign against Germany was the long military campaign of World War II, a war within a war. Until Allied soldiers crossed into Germany in the final months of the war, it was the battle fought inside the German homeland.

Masters of the Air is "a stunning achievement" (David McCullough), "a fresh new account" (Walter Boyne, former director of the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum) of life in wartime England and in the German prison camps, where tens of thousands of airmen spent part of the war. It ends with a vivid description of the grisly hunger marches captured airmen were forced to make near the end of the war through the country their bombs destroyed.

作者简介

唐纳德·L·米勒 (Donald L. Miller) 是拉斐特学院 (Lafayette College) 约翰·亨利·麦克拉肯 (John Henry MacCracken) 历史学名誉教授，着有十本书，其中包括《维克斯堡》(Vicksburg) 和《空战群英》(Masters of the Air)，目前正由汤姆·汉克斯 (Tom Hanks) 改编成电视剧。 他主持、联合制作或担任过三十多部电视纪录片的历史顾问，并为《纽约时报》、《华盛顿邮报》和其他出版物撰稿。

Donald L. Miller is the John Henry MacCracken Professor of History Emeritus at Lafayette College and author of ten books, including Vicksburg, and Masters of the Air, currently being made into a television series by Tom Hanks. He has hosted, coproduced, or served as historical consultant for more than thirty television documentaries and has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other publications.