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The lost pilots : the spectacular rise and scandalous fall of aviation's golden couple / Corey Mead.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mead, Corey, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lancaster, Bill, 1898-1933.
- Lancaster, Bill.
- Miller, Jessie Keith.
- Air pilots--Great Britain--Biography.
- Air pilots.
- Women air pilots.
- Great Britain.
- Australia.
- Women air pilots--Australia--Biography.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Scandals.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Flatiron Books, 2018.
- Summary:
- "Set during the roaring twenties, Corey Mead's The Lost Pilots is the saga of two star crossed pilots who soar to the greatest heights of fame, tailspin into scandal and crime, and go the ultimate lengths for a chance at redemption" -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I. Red rose
- Bright young things ; A nimble liftoff
- Single-mined abandon
- Arrival
- Part II. A new world
- Grand welcomes
- Flying solo
- A change in fortune
- To Miami
- Future unknown
- Mental agony
- Eager, drunken love
- The tortures of the damned
- A ,man of many secrets
- A terrible thing
- Forgeries
- The scarlet woman
- Part III. Flight to nowhere
- Those dim days of the past that are dead
- A tissue of lies
- American justice is all wet
- The man from Auburn
- The verdict
- A tragic figure
- This period of agony
- Epilogue: The past reaches out.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781250109248
- 1250109248
- OCLC:
- 1003821965
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