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On Glorious Wings : The Best Flying Stories of the Century
by Stephen Coonts
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• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• A Brief Sampler of a Few Good Books
  It's clear Coonts has a passion for flight, which can be appreciated by all those who love the genre. Some of the most entertaining parts of the book occur when he introduces the next excerpt; he speaks wonderfully and weaves fantastic images to express a longing for flight. Overall, though, I have to say this book was really only so-so.
  It's made up of several excerpts from books Coonts has decided are the most intriguing regarding flight (written in the past 100-150 years or so). They cover a wide... more info

• Sadly, nothing new...
  I love Stephen Coonts for his fiction and for his compellations... "Combat" and "Victory" were excellent. This book lacks the redeeming trait of those tomes: new material. This is a collection of classics, but the selections from the modern authors- Coonts, Brown, and Peters- are all republished works, too. Granted, they are from wonderful novels themselves, but this collection would be that much better if there was some new material in it... pity.
  If you do like the selection from "The War in 2020," buy... more info

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