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Ernest K. Gann

    Ernest K. Gann putte inspiratie uit zijn uitgebreide reizen en avonturen, zowel als vlieger als als zeeman. Deze ervaringen vormden zijn literaire werk, dat vaak thema's als moed, lot en de menselijke geest tegen de elementen verkent. Zijn schrijfstijl kenmerkt zich door meeslepende verhalen en gedetailleerde beschrijvingen van lucht- en maritieme scènes, waardoor de lezer in de actie wordt ondergedompeld. Gann verweefde meesterlijk zijn persoonlijke ervaringen met fictieve verhalen, en creëerde zo boeiende werken die de avontuurlijke geest vieren.

    In the Company of Eagles
    The Aviator
    Blaze of Noon
    The Antagonists
    The Bad Angel
    Fate is the Hunter
    • Blaze of Noon

      • 263bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      The four MacDonald brothers were born to fly. Right after World War I they took to stunt flying at county fairs, barnstorming their way around the U.S.A., selling joy rides and confounding the populace with an assortment of highly skilled aerobatics in the unlikely aircraft of the time. They graduated to a steadier way of making a living, but the dangers were just as acute - if not more so. For now they had a contract to deliver he mails, and this had to be done on time, in all kinds of weather, under all kinds of conditions. But neither the conditions nor the tragedies they inevitably suffered would stop them.

      Blaze of Noon1991
      3,5
    • The Bad Angel

      • 275bladzijden
      • 10 uur lezen

      When cocaine claims the life of his eldest son, Montana cattle rancher Lee Rogers runs for Congress and wages an all-out war on drugs, but at the height of his campaign, he mysteriously disappears

      The Bad Angel1987
      4,4
    • Fate is the Hunter

      • 416bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen

      "This book is an episodic log of some of the more memorable of (the author's) nearly 10,000 hours aloft in peace and in war. It is also an attempt to define by example his belief in the phenomenon of luck-- that the pattern of anyone's fate is only partly contrived by the individual".--The New Yorker.

      Fate is the Hunter1986
      4,6
    • Massada

      Het heldhaftig verzet van het Joodse volk

      • 317bladzijden
      • 12 uur lezen

      Relaas van het laatste verzet van de Joden tegen de Romeinen in het begin van de jaartelling, gezien door de ogen van de twee aanvoerders.

      Massada1985
    • The Aviator

      • 160bladzijden
      • 6 uur lezen

      In 1928, a lonely, guilt-ridden U.S. mail pilot and his passenger survive a devastating crash and begin a journey of survival in the Rocky Mountains

      The Aviator1985
      3,2
    • Lorbeer für die Besiegten

      • 256bladzijden
      • 9 uur lezen

      Lorbeer für die Besiegten - Roman um Masada - bk297; Droemer Knaur Verlag; Ernest K. Gann; pocket_book; 1975

      Lorbeer für die Besiegten1975
    • Men against the north--a story of the ferry command, Air Transport, & of Dooley, who had 20 years' record of success in commercial air flight, only to come down, icebound, somewhere in the unchartered northland. Dooley was dean of a close knit group, & everything else took second place as the men came into headquarters, & set out again to find him. An unknown lake--beyond unknown mountains--a time schedule--& faith--such alone they had to go on, hampered by Army red tape, lack of radio contact, navigation rules upset by the frozen north. The story shifts from Dooley's experiences, with the five men who counted on him, to the men who sought him. Starkly told--another segment of understanding of total war.--Kirkus

      Island In The Sky1970
    • An exuberant historical tale that returns to the days of heroes larger than life silhouetted against the desert sky above the rock of Masada. Eleazar ben Yair and General Flavius Silva, the antagonists in that brief conflict when the Romans were pursuing the last remnants of resisting Jews, shared the common nobility of men who face impossible odds. Eleazar confronted the overwhelmingly superior military force of Rome; Silva, a sensitive, intelligent man, faced the subtler threat of spiritual and physical impotence. Then there is Sheva, a Jewish beauty determined to save her people Jael-fashion; the influential Roman Falco with his two pretty boys; noble Masadians and grousing Romans. It all ends with a Roman desert victory entailing their psychic defeat.

      The Antagonists1970
      4,0