The Unsubstantial Air: American Fliers in the First World War - Samuel Hynes
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Read by Sean Runnette
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 32 Kbps
Unabridged
11.5 hrs
2014
Chapterized
The Unsubstantial Air is the gripping story of the Americans who fought and died in the aerial battles of World War I. Much more than a traditional military history, it is an account of the excitement of becoming a pilot and flying in combat over the Western Front, told through the words and voices of the aviators themselves.
A World War II pilot himself, the memoirist and critic Samuel Hynes revives the adventurous young men who inspired his own generation to take to the sky. The volunteer fliers were often privileged-the sorts of college athletes and Ivy League students who might appear in an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, and sometimes did. Others were country boys from the farms and ranches of the West. Hynes follows them from the flying clubs of Harvard, Princeton, and Yale and the grass airfields of Texas and Canada to training grounds in Europe and on to the front, where they learned how to fight a war in the air. And to the bars and clubs of Paris and London, where they unwound and discovered another kind of excitement, another challenge. He shows how East Coast aristocrats like Teddy Roosevelt’s son Quentin and Arizona roughnecks like Frank Luke the Balloon Buster all dreamed of chivalric single combat in the sky, and how they came to know both the beauty of flight and the constant presence of death.
By drawing on letters sent home, diaries kept, and memoirs published in the years that followed, Hynes brings to life the emotions, anxieties, and triumphs of the young pilots. They gasp in wonder at the world seen from a plane, struggle to keep their hands from freezing in open air cockpits, party with actresses and aristocrats, rest at Voltaire’s castle, and search for their friends’ bodies on the battlefield. Their romantic war becomes more than that-a harsh but often thrilling reality. Weaving together their testimonies, The Unsubstantial Air is a moving portrait of a generation coming of age under new and extreme circumstances.
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| Creation Date: | Sun, 21 Jun 2015 01:56:46 -0400 |
| This is a Multifile Torrent | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 03 - 3. Going.mp3 11.55 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 05 - 5. Driving the Machine.mp3 11.1 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 15 - 15. September - St. Mihiel.mp3 10.45 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 07 - 7. Waiting for the War.mp3 10.39 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 11 - 11. In Pursuit.mp3 10 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 13 - 13. A Short History of Bombing.mp3 9.99 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 09 - 9. This Killing Business.mp3 9.87 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 19 - 19. Afterwards.mp3 9.62 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 01 - Prologue & 1. An Occupation for Gentlemen.mp3 9.09 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 06 - 6. The Pleasurable Sensation of Flying.mp3 8.37 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 17 - 17. The Last Battle.mp3 8.36 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 14 - 14. Summer - 1918.mp3 8.12 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 02. The Ivy League Air Force.mp3 7.7 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 08 - 8. How to Fight.mp3 6.7 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 12 - 12. Looking at the War.mp3 5.93 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 16 - 16. Abroad III - End Games.mp3 5.66 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 10 - 10. Abroad II - Getting Acquainted.mp3 5.2 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 04 - 4. Abroad I - First Impressions.mp3 5.04 MBs | |
| The Unsubstantial Air - 18 - 18. November Eleventh.mp3 3.46 MBs | |
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