The Millionaire's Unit
The Aristocratic Flyboys who Fought the Great War and Invented American Airpower
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Word Count
88,000 words, Guess
Page Count
352 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8820661M
- ISBN-139781586483289
- ISBN-101586483285
- OCLC Control Number68622933
- OCLC Control Numbermillionairesunit00wort
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2006280329
- Goodreads196685
- LibraryThing1131298
Classifications
- LCCD606.W67 2006
Description
In 1916, just thirteen years after the Wright brothers' first flight, a group of twenty-eight college students, and sons of America's early 20th century aristocracy, decided to try the sport of motorized flight and formed a campus flying club. The Millionaires' Unit is the story of a gilded generation of young men from the zenith of privilege: a Rockerfeller, the son of the head of the Union Pacific Railroad, several who counted friends and relatives among presidents and statesmen of the day. They had it all and, remarkably by modern standards, they were prepared to risk it all to fight a distant war in France. For readers of Flyboys, The greatest generation, or Flags of our fathers, this patriotic, romantic, absorbing book is narrative military history of the best kind.
First Sentence
AS FREDERICK TRUBEE DAVISON'S SOPHOMORE YEAR DREW TO A CLOSE, he had begun to bask in the sunshine of Yale.
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