Air America: The Story of the CIA'S Secret Airlines [Hardcover]

Christopher Robbins (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 323 pages
• Publisher: Putnam; First Edition edition (1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399122079
• ISBN-13: 978-0399122071
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,166,649 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't stop while reading this one !, April 26, 2004

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Herman Reede (Europe , Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Air America: The Story of the CIA'S Secret Airlines (Hardcover)

Found this book in a Bangkok airport taxfree shop , bought it , started reading it and finished it within 2 days.
A great view inside the secret air operations in SE Asia during the 60's / 70's. Furthermore other info about the years before and after the Vietnam war.
Would like to read more about this subject. Would like to see more photo's from this era.
Great writing style by Mr.Robbins.
One of my top 3 books !

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grab this book if interested in the war in Southeast Asia, July 26, 2003

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S. G Spires (Huntsville, Al United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Air America: The Story of the CIA'S Secret Airlines (Hardcover)

This book sparked a small controversy when it was released in 1979 because it was one of the first to take a serious look at America's "secret" war in Laos and Cambodia.

Robbins did a fine job by interviewing pilots and showing what it was like to fly, fight and survive what many thought was a backwater to the Vietnam war. I thought he was very fair to the men who fought there.

Catch his other book, if you like this one, "The Ravens." Released almost a decade later, in 1987, "The Ravens" tells the story of secret Forward Air Controllers, or FACs, who controlled air strikes during the Vietnam War. Robbins got even better stories for "The Ravens." Both books are kind of hard to find though. You have to buy them used.