"The Wild Blue. The Novel of the U.S. Air Force", by Walter J. Boyne and Steven L. Thompson, published by Crown Publishers, New York, First Edition, 2nd Printing, 1986. "First Edition" is stated on the copyright page.

Original dust jacket with un-clipped price on the front flap; blue hard boards [a little age staining], cloth spine, gold lettering; 6.1/4" x 9.1/4"; the endpapers are illustrated with airplanes; 626 pages, very good/ fine condition.

"The Wild Blue" is a panoramic saga of 35 years of Air Force exploits--in battles, bedrooms, and the skies. From the Berlin Airlift to Korea, Vietnam and the Middle East, four men of the Air Force do a dangerous job--for country, family, self--and sometimes for the hell of it.

Walter J. Boyne is the former director of the National Air & Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. Boyne's books have made both the fiction and the nonfiction bestseller lists of The New York Times. His novels Roaring Thunder and Supersonic Thunder cover the first forty-four years of jet aviation. His critically acclaimed nonfiction book, Dawn Over Kitty Hawk, recounts the story of the Wright Brothers. A retired Air Force Colonel, Boyne was enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame class of 2007.

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