Victory - Volume 2: Into the Fire [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Ralph Peters (Author), Stephen Coonts (Editor, Introduction), Eric Conger (Reader), Ron McLarty (Reader), David Hagberg (Contributor)

Book Description

Series: Victory | Publication Date: May 13, 2003

Victory: Volume Two
Foreword by Stephen Coonts
Honor by Ralph Peters
V5 by David Hagberg

From The New York Times bestselling editor of Combat

A stirring tribute to the Greatest Generation of Americans, Victory brings together the finest military fiction writers in the world with short novels of courage, skill, daring, and sacrifice. Here you will meet the men and women who fought and won World War II, in thrilling stories of war as it was really fought.

An exciting sequel to the bestselling Combat, Victory brings together today’s greatest military, espionage, and technothriller writers in all-original, thrilling tales of World War II--great short novels that range from the home front to the battlefields of Europe to the depths of the Pacific. Join Coonts, Ralph Peters, Harold Coyle, David Hagberg, Jim DeFelice, and R. J. Pineiro, in works filled with nonstop action.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Stephen Coonts is the author of eight New York Times bestselling novels, the first of which was the classic Flight of the Intruder. He is also the collector and editor of the anthology of true flying stories War in the Air, and the bestselling Combat.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio; Unabridged edition (May 13, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1559278897
• ISBN-13: 978-1559278898
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,952,050 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's an airplane read!, February 19, 2006

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D. F SHAFER "don" (austin, tx United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Victory: Into the Fire (Mass Market Paperback)

Okay, okay - it's has a number of glaring technical, weapons elated problems. I'm a pilot and a Vietnam era US Air Force officer. I also had my first flight in my grandfather's 1930's vintage Stearman by getting strapped standing up in the front cockpit. Open cockpit WWII era fighters flying more than 300 knots had worst than just visibility problems for the pilot. And, planes that are on fire and have a mid air collision with a German bomber usually do not allow the pilot to simply glide to an emergency landing. Next to that, confusing the aerocoupe side door to a canopy on the Bell Airocobra P-39 was a minor faux pas.

Well endowed German stewardresses on a German WWII military transport? Come on Mr. Robbins. And, Mr. Coyle, from every Marine I've ever spoken to - my uncle landed on all the WWII Pacific campaigns as a Marine Quartermaster - no one ever left a BAR in a dead Marine's position. The fire power was too necessary.

But, other than all that, this is a good read for a long airline trip. It will take you mind off of the terribvle service, cramped seats and make you with you were on that German WWII transport!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't Waste Your Money, August 17, 2005

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Robert Nelson (Toronto Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Victory: Into the Fire (Mass Market Paperback)

Firstly, let me say that I admire Stephen Coonts as a man, a pilot and as an author. His novel "Flight of the Intruder" and his flight log "The Cannibal Queen" sit on my bookshelf beside master pilot-authors the likes of Richard Bach, Antoine de Saint-Exupery and Ernest K. Gann.

"Victory - Into the Fire" is a compilation of mediocre war novelettes "Edited and Introduced by Stephen Coonts".

Sadly, the book is a testimony to the growing trend of cross-marketing by excellent authors who lend their good names to lesser authors: all in the quest for increased profits and name exposure.

tsk... tsk... tsk...

Fiction requires the reader to suspend disbelief. Historical fiction is more difficult still, as inaccuracies shake the knowledgeable reader back to reality.

Want to write about specific aircraft? You had better do your homework.

Note to Editor Stephen Coonts and Author Rogelio J. Pineiro...

The Bell P-39 Airacobra was a SINGLE ENGINE aircraft. Thus, pilots cannot advance "the throttles" because there is ONLY ONE THROTTLE on the P-39.

Got that, Pineiro? One engine = One throttle.

Bailing out of the P-39 was a very big deal and well-feared by pilots. Instead of a jettisonable canopy like most contemporary WW-II aircraft, the P-39 had a door like that of an automobile. Even if the pilot was successful in dumping the door, many ended up being smashed by the horizontal tail that patiently waited for pilots exiting the cockpit at higher speeds.

Thus, when Pineiro's protagonist has the "canopy"..."blown off" (page 267) and "drops out" of the P-39, it shows that the author didn't even bother doing basic research.

Oh.... and another small point for Mr. Coonts and Pinerio.... No German Jets were in combat over Stalingrad in 1942 - or at any other time. AND...the Messerschmitt 109G was NOT a jet fighter.

I want my money back.