P-51 Mustang (Motorbooks International Warbird History) [Paperback]

Robert F. Dorr (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 128 pages
• Publisher: Motorbooks Intl (November 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076030002X
• ISBN-13: 978-0760300022
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 8.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,489,086 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #43 in Books > Professional & Technical > Transportation > Reference

More About the Author

Robert F. Dorr, 71, is an author (1955- ); an Air Force veteran (1957-60); and a retired senior Foreign Service officer (a diplomat; 1964-89). He has three books currently in print. The newest is "MISSION TO BERLIN,":about the Americans who fought in one of the largest aerial battles of World War II.

He is the author of 70 books and thousands of magazine articles about the Air Force, aviation and military affairs. He writes a weekly opinion column for Air Force Times, monthly columns for Combat Aircraft, Air International and Aerospace America magazines, and a quarterly column for Air Power History, which he helped create. His first paid magazine article was in the November 1955 Air Force magazine when he was fifteen. He wrote 1,700 history columns for all four Military Times newspapers from 2000 to 2009.

Bob Dorr's other books in print are "HELL HAWKS,"" co-authored with Thomas D. Jones, a history of a P-47 Thunderbolt fighter group in World War II and "AIR FORCE ONE," a history of presidential aircraft.

He is a private pilot and parachutist and has flown aboard most current Air Force aircraft. Bob Dorr lives in Oakton, Virginia with his wife Young Soon, a career government worker, and their Labrador retriever, Autumn. They have two grown sons with families.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Want to read it again, January 16, 1999

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This review is from: P-51 Mustang (Motorbooks International Warbird History) (Paperback)

The best planee thaat the world has ever seen there should be a series. I hope other people enjoyed the book as much as I did. I hope after people read this book think as the plane more then a plain, but a HERO.Hope you'll read it.