Miller takes readers from the adrenaline filled battles in the sky, to the airbases across England, the German prison camps, and onto the ground to understand the devastation faced by civilians.ĭrawn from interviews, oral histories, and American, British and German archives, Masters of the Air is the authoritative, deeply moving and important account of the world's first and only bomber war. Miller covers the entire waron land, at sea, and in the airand provides new coverage of the brutal island fighting in the Pacific, the bomber war over Europe, the liberation of the death.

But they were also an elite group of fighters who put their lives on the line in the most dangerous role of all. Unlike ground soldiers they slept on clean beds, drank beer in local pubs, and danced to the swing music of the travelling Air Force bands. Historian and World War II expert Donald Miller brings us the story of the bomber boys who brought the war to Hitler's doorstep.

Millers book Masters of the Air: Americas Bomber Boys Who Fought the Air War Against Nazi Germany +17 View gallery A long time in. Meet the Flying Fortresses of the American Eighth Air Force, Britain's Lancaster comrades, who helped to bring down the Nazis Basis: Masters Of The Air is based on Donald L. 'Seconds after Brady's plane was hit, the Hundredth's entire formation was broken up and scattered by swarms of single-engine planes, and by rockets launched by twin-engine planes that flew parallel' Anthony Boyle has signed on to star in in Apples World War II drama Masters of the Air, a continuation of the Band of Brothers/The Pacific franchise from.

Masters of the Air by Donald L. Miller