Liana: Great book and the price was better than a bookstore
United States on Oct 02, 2023
dan quail: If you enjoy history and/or flying great read.
United States on Sep 15, 2023
JetAv8r: This is a great book that describes the early days of commercial aviation. It covers commercial aviation during WW2 and how primitive navigation was with out GPS and all of the other aids that modern aviation has today. Whether you are a pilot or not you will enjoy this book. If you are a pilot you should a copy of this and other books by Ernest Gann.
United States on Jul 31, 2023
PnwCoddiwompler: Engaging memoir of Mr. Gann's experiences from a young pilot in the early ages of aeronautics. It follows his career in the fledgling years of commercial airlines, flying for the war effort during the WW II years and back to the growing post war commercial industry.
All with the specter of fate following the author and his associates. Those who survived and those who didn't
United States on Jul 25, 2023
Kindle Customer: This is required reading for any Pilot, just beginning or just finishing....Tells it like it was when Pilots had to be Pilots.....No automation to bale you out of trouble or hold your hand.
Extremely well written, with some heart-stopping moments....Records a really extraordinary time in aviation. history...An absolute must-read, Pilot or not, a great adventure with some tragic moments...These were the pioneers, who made aviation what it is today..Being a pilot I still have the occasional nightmare thinking about some of the events described within.!
United Kingdom on Mar 12, 2023
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United Kingdom on Mar 06, 2023
Michael Field: They say this is the best book ever written about aviation. Even after nearly a lifetime of being interested in the subject, I suspect that they are right.
The author tells his story prosaically and yet poetically. He may have climbed through the rain to his reward long ago but the book is his tribute.
United Kingdom on Jan 10, 2023
Ove Munch Thomsen: Gann is a very good story teller and here he tells a story that is seldom told. There has been written many books about fighter/bomber pilots and quite a few about test pilots but rather few about the unsung heroes from transport command without whom the war would have grinded to a halt pretty rapidly. The author started as a traffic pilot in pre-war america and his tales from his early years are both funny, scary and at times quite moving. This was in the days before weather radar, satelite maps, GPS systems and all the things that has turned civil aviation into a well oiled and safe machine for tranporting people. Back then the flying was "seat of your pants" and Gann tells some rather hair raising stories from those early days. He never try to hide the fact that he was lucky and a lot of his comrades from the flying scool was not.
Then Gann along with a lot of his colleagues were "lured" into something they didn't quite know what was but it turned out to be the start of the largest "flying transport business" the world had ever seen Air Transport Command. He and his colleagues were still civilian pilots but the millitary used them to "fly anywhere with anything". He...
United Kingdom on May 31, 2013
A. Steven Toby: Earnest K. Gann is a well known aviation writer and before that, a succesful pilot of airliners and military transports in the time period during, before, and after World War II. "Fate is the Hunter" is probably his best known book, and it deserves to be. Reading it, we are in the presence of a classic that can be read on at least two levels: as a drawn-out adventure story taking place over a period of years, studded with gems of aviation art from a period that now seems very long ago, or as a thoughtful reflection on danger and man's reaction to it, guided by a deep familiarity with the psychology of superstition.
From the first point of view, we get to see the near-collision with the Taj Mahal on takeoff, and the wild ride in ice-laden clouds over the Applachians that nearly brought down Capt. Gann's airliner in a time period when anti-ice equipment was primitive and instrument navigation in its infancy. Straddling the two points of view we have the Arctic adventure when a military transport with wounded coming back from Europe has to land on a frozen lake in Canada, in a region with so much natural magnetism that navigation systems of the day are useless, a region so...
United States on Jun 19, 2012
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| Total Reviews | 69 reviews | 379 reviews | 423 reviews |
| Author Biographies | Author Biographies | ||
| ISBN-13 | 978-0671636036 | 978-1684510795 | 978-0063097681 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #60 in Scientist Biographies#72 in Author Biographies#81 in Traveler & Explorer Biographies | #9 in United States Military Veterans History#21 in WWII Biographies#80 in World War II History | #15 in Jewish Holocaust History#119 in Happiness Self-Help#193 in Memoirs |
| Dimensions | 6.13 x 1 x 9.25 inches | 6 x 1 x 9 inches; 1.14 Pounds | 6 x 0.77 x 9 inches; 12.8 Ounces |
| Language | English | English | English |
| Item Weight | 1.08 pounds | ||
| Customer Reviews | 4.7/5 stars of 2,133 ratings | 4.9/5 stars of 1,832 ratings | 4.8/5 stars of 13,673 ratings |
| Traveler & Explorer Biographies | Traveler & Explorer Biographies | ||
| Paperback | 416 pages | ||
| ISBN-10 | 0671636030 | 1684510791 | 0063097680 |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster; First Edition | Regnery History | Harper; First Edition edition |
| Scientist Biographies | Scientist Biographies |
Germany on Oct 10, 2023