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Victory - Volume 2 Audio Cassette – Unabridged, May 13, 2003

by David Hagberg (Author), Ralph Peters (Author), Stephen Coonts (Editor, Introduction),

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Victory: Volume Two
Foreword by Stephen Coonts
Honor by Ralph Peters
V5 by David Hagberg

From The New York Times bestselling editor of Combat

A stirring tribute to the Greatest Generation of Americans, Victory brings together the finest military fiction writers in the world with short novels of courage, skill, daring, and sacrifice. Here you will meet the men and women who fought and won World War II, in thrilling stories of war as it was really fought.

An exciting sequel to the bestselling Combat, Victory brings together today’s greatest military, espionage, and technothriller writers in all-original, thrilling tales of World War II--great short novels that range from the home front to the battlefields of Europe to the depths of the Pacific. Join Coonts, Ralph Peters, Harold Coyle, David Hagberg, Jim DeFelice, and R. J. Pineiro, in works filled with nonstop action.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition (May 13, 2003)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1559278897
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1559278898
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 7.2 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.6 x 1.12 x 7.04 inches

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D. F SHAFER

It's an airplane read!

Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2006

Okay, okay - it's has a number of glaring technical, weapons elated problems. I'm a pilot and a Vietnam era US Air Force officer. I also had my first flight in my grandfather's 1930's vintage Stearman by getting strapped standing up in the front cockpit. Open cockpit WWII era fighters flying more than 300 knots had worst than just visibility problems for the pilot. And, planes that are on fire and have a mid air collision with a German bomber usually do not allow the pilot to simply glide to an emergency landing. Next to that, confusing the aerocoupe side door to a canopy on the Bell Airocobra P-39 was a minor faux pas.

Well endowed German stewardresses on a German WWII military transport? Come on Mr. Robbins. And, Mr. Coyle, from every Marine I've ever spoken to - my uncle landed on all the WWII Pacific campaigns as a Marine Quartermaster - no one ever left a BAR in a dead Marine's position. The fire power was too necessary.

But, other than all that, this is a good read for a long airline trip. It will take you mind off of the terribvle service, cramped seats and make you with you were on that German WWII transport!

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Reve

Everything was fine and as expected

Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2015

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Bought it for a gift and to replace one of my husband's books that the post office lost. Everything was fine and as expected.

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Tom King

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Reviewed in the United States on March 30, 2014

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Good book to read. I was born during the WWII war and had many people I knew who were in it and heard some very interesting stories. So reading this book fit right in with these stories.

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Robert Nelson

Don't Waste Your Money

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2005

Firstly, let me say that I admire Stephen Coonts as a man, a pilot and as an author. His novel "Flight of the Intruder" and his flight log "The Cannibal Queen" sit on my bookshelf beside master pilot-authors the likes of Richard Bach, Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Ernest K. Gann.

"Victory - Into the Fire" is a compilation of mediocre war novelettes "Edited and Introduced by Stephen Coonts".

Sadly, the book is a testimony to the growing trend of cross-marketing by excellent authors who lend their good names to lesser authors: all in the quest for increased profits and name exposure.

tsk... tsk... tsk...

Fiction requires the reader to suspend disbelief. Historical fiction is more difficult still, as inaccuracies shake the knowledgeable reader back to reality.

Want to write about specific aircraft? You had better do your homework.

Note to Editor Stephen Coonts and Author Rogelio J. Pineiro...

The Bell P-39 Airacobra was a SINGLE ENGINE aircraft. Thus, pilots cannot advance "the throttles" because there is ONLY ONE THROTTLE on the P-39.

Got that, Pineiro? One engine = One throttle.

Bailing out of the P-39 was a very big deal and well-feared by pilots. Instead of a jettisonable canopy like most contemporary WW-II aircraft, the P-39 had a door like that of an automobile. Even if the pilot was successful in dumping the door, many ended up being smashed by the horizontal tail that patiently waited for pilots exiting the cockpit at higher speeds.

Thus, when Pineiro's protagonist has the "canopy"..."blown off" (page 267) and "drops out" of the P-39, it shows that the author didn't even bother doing basic research.

Oh.... and another small point for Mr. Coonts and Pinerio.... No German Jets were in combat over Stalingrad in 1942 - or at any other time. AND...the Messerschmitt 109G was NOT a jet fighter.

I want my money back.

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