Jimmy Stewart
Bomber Pilot
Smith, Starr
First Edition
"I have met a few movie stars, but of them all, I think that Jimmy Stewart was most like those modest heroes he portrayed. Now Journalist Starr Smith has raised the curtain on Stewart's gallant service as a bomber pilot and air combat commander in World War II."
Forword by Walter Cronkite, from Jimmy Stewart: Bomber Pilot
If all the celebrities who served their country during World War II - and they were legion - Jimmy Stewart was unique. At the height of his fame in 1940 after starring in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and earning an Academy Award for The Philadelphia Story, Stewart saw war on the horizon and enlisted. By the time Pearl Harbor woke so many others to the reality of the war, Stewart was already serving as a private on guard duty at the Army Air Corp's Moffet Field, south of San Francisco.
"It's a true story of personal knowledge," writes Walter Cronkite in the foreword, "and is told with skill, respect, and admiration."
Hardcover with dust jacket
288 Seiten / pages
many photos
very good condition
Minneapolis, Minn., U.S.A. - 2005 - Zenith Press
Art.Nr. 24354
