Eagle Station [Paperback]

Mark Berent (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Jove (1993)
• ISBN-10: 0515112089
• ISBN-13: 978-0515112085
• ASIN: B001KNSK1W
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.5 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,744,446 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lt Col Mark E. Berent, USAF (Ret), was born in Minneapolis, graduated from Cretin High School in St. Paul, and Arizona State University with a BSME.

Berent began his Air Force career as an enlisted man then pilot training at Columbus and Laredo. He served three combat tours, completing 452 combat sorties, first in the F-100 at Bien Hoa then the F-4 at Ubon. He spent two years in Cambodia flying things with propellers and, through a fluke, ran the air war for a few weeks.

He has logged over 4300 hours of flying time, 1084 of those in combat missions in the F-100, F-4, C-47 and U-10 over South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. He has flown 30 different aircraft.

His decorations include the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross with one oak leaf cluster, Bronze Star, Air Medal with twenty-four oak leaf clusters, Vietnam Cross of Gallantry, Cambodian Divisional Medal, and numerous Vietnam Campaign ribbons. He also earned US Special Forces and Cambodian jump wings.

Since retirement, he established international operations for the sale of spares for combat aircraft; flew foreign aircraft such as the Swedish Viggen and RAF Jaguar and Hawk; wrote numerous articles for the Air Force Magazine; and was a pilot/reporter for the Asian Defense Journal. He wrote five Vietnam airwar novels (Rolling Thunder, see www.markberent.com). Recently flew his T-6 in airshows.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Once I started reading I couldn't put it down!, April 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Eagle Station (Mass Market Paperback)

It's been a number of years since I've read Eagle Station, but I've read all of Mr. Berents' books and they were spectacular. The detail with which he describes the characters and scenes made you feel as if you were actually in the field, the enemy attacking you. You could almost hear the gun fire and feel the battle rage. His technique even let you inside the characters minds and understand what they might have gone through. I met Mr. Berents at a book signing at Davis Monthan AB in 1990-91. He autographed Rolling Thunder for me, complete with a Jane Fonda toilet paper book mark! I read Rolling Thunder on the flight to Tuscon from Indianapolis. All Mr. Berent's books are great reads, I wish he would write more!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars one of five in series. best description of air war in RVN, July 21, 1996

By A Customer

This review is from: Eagle Station (Mass Market Paperback)

This is number four of a five book series that follows the adventures of several pilots and special forces personnel through the war in Viet Nam. For those of us who were pilots in that war, it is the best and most accurate description of our experiences. Each book of the series seems both historically and otherwise factually accurate. All in all, one of the best "reads" to be had since Tom Clancy started writing

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars first rate, written by a true flier that was there, September 26, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Eagle Station (Mass Market Paperback)

I have read all the Mark Berent books and find them all to be first rate and full of action, interesting people and story twists. An excellent read.