Fighting the Flying Circus

Name: Fighting the Flying Circus
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.71 (7 reviews)
Author: Eddie V. Rickenbacker
ISBN: 9781452676951

Author: Eddie V. Rickenbacker

Narrator: John Pruden

Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 03/26/2012

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Military Nonfiction

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker, originally from Ohio, was best known as one of the commanders of the 94th "Hat-in-the-Ring" Squadron, a crack unit of pilots that included many former members of the famed Lafayette Escadrille. The 94th ended the war in France with the highest number of air victories of any American squadron. Captain Rickenbacker later belonged to an association of pilots and Great War air veterans who, in the years immediately following the Second World War, invited many of the new "young" aces from the Pacific and European theaters for informal lectures. These men never lost their keen interest in aviation.

About Eddie V. Rickenbacker

Eddie V. Rickenbacker (1890-1973) was an American fighter ace in World War I and a Medal of Honor recipient. He was also a race car driver and automotive designer, a government consultant in military matters, and a pioneer in air transportation, particularly as the longtime head of Eastern Air Lines.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim

This is a really interesting view of WWI, completely different from any others I've read to date. All of them concentrated on the ground war & largely ignored anything related to the air save artillery. To hear Eddie tell it, the air force was a pretty important part including those who went up in b......more

Goodreads review by KOMET

As a First World War aviation enthusiast of 40 years standing (I bought my first book on the subject when I was a preteen in April 1977), I had known about "FIGHTING THE FLYING CIRCUS" for some time. But it was only a few days ago that I made the time to read it. And truly it is a fantastic story. Be......more

Goodreads review by Jim

Captain Eddie Rickenbacker was one of the most famous and accomplished flying aces of World War I, and his adventures in the war were striking. As a record of those adventures, this ghost-written memoir suffers from repetitiveness, drawn as it is from Rickenbacker’s diary. It reports the daily fligh......more

Goodreads review by Richard

While the most brutal and unromantic war up that point in human history was being fought in the trenches beneath them, the pilots of Eddie Rickenbacker's Hat In The Ring squadron fought a romantic and glamorous war in the air. They followed a code of fair play and good sportsmanship worthy of the kn......more