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Price: $23.00 as of 09/02/2010 11:09 EDT
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
Fabric Type: 9780451205780
Fax Number: Reprint
Legal Disclaimer: 0451205782
Maximum Color Depth: Signet
Metal Type: Signet
Publisher: 1
Region Code: 336
Total External Bays Free: May 01, 2002
Total Firewire Ports: Signet
Total Parallel Ports: May 07, 2002
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This is the real Navy, as seen through the eyes of a veteran pilot. Set on a carrier in the Persian Gulf, this "remarkably honest"* book introduces us to Navy Lieutenant Rick "Punk" Reichert, who loves flying more than anything-even if his life is turning into one big dogfight.
"For readers of military fiction who want some brains with their boom." (*Baltimore Sun)
"Like Top Gun on steroids." (Publishers Weekly)
"Rousing...a convincing, often amusing, surprisingly unflinching account." (Kirkus Reviews)
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The author has the credentials and the scenes that result from an admiral's misplaced paranoia as they overwork the air crews are funny, sad, poignant, and heroic. Terrific.
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It has been 18 years since I left the Navy. I wasn't in Jets, I was in Surface Warfare, mostly nuclear power. Ward transported me right back to those earlier years. His portrayal of life as a junior officer crosses all warfare specialties. -- How it's a bad idea to answer a knock on your stateroom door, when someone else will do it for you. How you work for 24 hours and then are expected to do it all over again with only a couple hours of sleep. How the people that you think are supporting you, ... Read More
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"Punk" is the call sign, the official nickname of a man who flies a massive airplane - a US Navy F-14. So large and complex it requires two men to fly, the F-14. In "Punk's War", Punk is one aviator in a squadron of pilots who face the daily rigors of flying in the skies of the Persian Gulf, where just about everybody hates the US. At this point, Ward Carroll's novel sounds pretty much like just about half of the air-war techno-thrillers of the past 20 years. Yet "Punk's War" is still a cut above your ... Read More
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Now you're talking! As a surface sailor who served in carriers, this was educational, factual, interesting, and entertaining. Ward Carroll takes the reader into the Ready Room, describes characters we've all known or experienced, and introduces the reader to all phases of life aboard the "boat."
Carroll's books are the best of any military writer I've read.
Where's the movie?
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Even though the F14 Tomcat is now retired, it is too bad Ward Carroll has retired Punk and his cohorts. I read the three Punk series and enjoyed them all. At the end of Punk's War, you kind of wonder what is next. Since Punk does not become the Aide, I guess LCDR Reichert (SP?) may be done. That is too bad.
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