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Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers. Seller Inventory # 00101798833
Riveting, novelistic, and startlingly candid, John T. Halliday's combat memoir begins in 1970, when Halliday has just landed in the middle of the Vietnam War, primed to begin his assignment with the 606th Special Operations Squadron. But there's a catch: He's stationed in a kind of no-man's-land. No one on his base flies with ID, patches, or rank. Even as Richard Nixon firmly denies reporters' charges that the United States has forces in Laos, Halliday realizes that from his base in Thailand, he will be flying top-secret, black-ops night missions over the Laotian Ho Chi Minh Trail.
A naive yet thoughtful twenty-four-year-old, Halliday was utterly unprepared for the horrors of war. On his first mission, Halliday's C-123 aircraft dodges more than a thousand antiaircraft shells, and that is just the beginning. Nothing is as he expected -- not the operations, not the way his shell-shocked fellow pilots look and act, and certainly not the squadron's daredevil, seat-of-one's-pants approach to piloting. But before long, Halliday has become one of those seasoned and shell-shocked pilots, and finds himself in a desperate search for a way to elude certain death.
Using frank, true-to-life dialogue, potent imagery, and classic 1970s song lyrics, Halliday deftly describes the fraught Laotian skies and re-creates his struggle to navigate the frustrating Air Force bureaucracy, the deprivations of a remote base far from home and his young wife, and his fight to preserve his sanity. The resulting nonfiction narrative vividly captures not only the intricate, distorted culture of war but also the essence of the Vietnam veteran's experience of this troubled era.
A powerhouse fusion of pathos and humor, brutal realism and intimate reflection, Flying Through Midnight is a landmark contribution to war literature, revealing previously top-secret intelligence on the 606th's night missions. Fast-paced, thrilling, and bitingly intelligent, Halliday illuminates it all: the heart-pounding air battles, the close friendships, the crippling fear, and the astonishing final escape that made the telling of it possible.
Review: ""Flying Through Midnight" is a no-holds-barred account of the secret air war over Laos. John Halliday paints a compelling cockpit view of the action, but he also immerses his readers in layer upon layer of sensations and emotions associated with those dangerous nighttime missions. He takes us on a hell of a ride!" -- Col. Tom Yarborough, author of "Da Nang Diary: A Forward Air Controller's Gunsight View of Combat in Vietnam"
Title: Flying Through Midnight A Pilo
Publisher: Scribner
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Seller: Books on the Square, Virden, IL, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Printing. 2005. 1st Printing. Near Fine hardback book. Near Fine dust jacket. Like new except for a light bump to top of spine. Square, tight and clean copy. 416pp. Sm 4to. (Rr). Seller Inventory # 026684
Seller: Goodbookscafe, Macon, GA, U.S.A.
Condition: acceptable. Used may have heavy highlighting, annotations, foxing. Seller Inventory # MGV.0743274881.A
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 4465570-6
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # GRP102472887
Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Condition: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 6243456-6
Seller: Fred M. Wacholz, Elkhart, IN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Near fine book and D.J. in clear plastic cover. Book yellow cloth, black spine strip, white title on tight as new spine and strong inner hinges. Previous owner's address sticker on front end paper. No other marks of any kind found in clean bright text. No photos except a one of a C-123 aircraft. opposite title pages. No stale tobacco odors. This is a truly gripping story of his secret missions over Laos during the Vietnam war! I read this book and it was very hard to put it down, Thank you for reading my description! Seller Inventory # 6957
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. book club edition edition. 432 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.00 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # 0743274881
Quantity: 1 available
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # 75I49_18_0743274881