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Название: King of the Air: The Turbulent Life of Charles Kingsford Smith Автор: Ann Blainey Издательство: Black Inc ISBN: 1743820712 Год: 2018 Формат: EPUB Страниц: 396 Для сайта:Mirknig.su Размер: 6,2 МБ Язык: Английский
Charles Kingsford Smith was the most commanding flyer of the golden age of aviation. In three short years, he broke records with his astounding and daring voyages: the first trans-Pacific flight from America to Australia, the first circumnavigation around the equator, the first non-stop crossing of the Australian mainland. He did it all with such courage, modesty and charm that Australia and the world fell in love with him. A tickertape parade was held in his honour on New York's Fifth Avenue. At home, he became a national hero, 'Our Smithy'. Yet his achievements belied a traumatic past. He had witnessed the horror of World War I – first as a soldier at Gallipoli, later as a combat pilot with the Royal Flying Corps – and, like so many of his generation, he bore physical and emotional scars. The public saw the derring-do; only those close to him knew the anxious man who pushed himself to the edge of health and sanity. In November 1935, Kingsford Smith's plane crashed and he was lost at sea near Burma, his body never to be recovered.
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King of the Air: The Turbulent Life of Charles Kingsford Smith 
