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| Excerpt: The Twilight Warriors |
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| Excerpt from Skygods: The Fall of Pan Am |
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THE TWILIGHT WARRIORS: Winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature.
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SKYGODS FLIES AGAIN!
One happy outcome of the ABC "Pan Am" series has been the renewed interest in Pan Am and the roaring 1960s. SKYGODS: THE FALL OF PAN AM is back in print in a gorgeous softcover edition, available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble, as well as an e-book version in Kindle and Nook editions. And still available on Amazon.com is the hardcover edition from Paladwr Press edited by aviation historian R.E.G. Davies.
Click the author's photo for the link to Bob's commentary on Fox News about Skygods and the ABC show "Pan Am."
"Gandt has a way with words that will send the reader soaring."
–San Diego News Union
"Written in a wonderful bold style, with pathos, humor, tragedy, and gripping suspense, The Twilight Warriors captures the life and death struggle of sailors and airmen fighting the last great Pacific battle of World War II... A riveting masterpiece, a powerful tribute to all those sailors and pilots who went in harm's way. Five stars!"
– Stephen Coonts, bestselling author of Flight of the Intruder
"Gandt's writing is for fans of air racing and warships and lovers of extreme sports."
–Publisher's Weekly
"Gandt has an uncanny ability to integrate authentic real-life situations and conversations of both the American and the Japanese forces."
–Walter J. Boyne, bestselling author of The Wild Blue
"...a spell-binding account of men in war, scared, bloody, and brave beyond belief."
–Daytona News-Journal
Flash!
The Twilight Warriors has been named the winner of the Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Excellence in Naval Literature. See the link in the sidebar for the Press Release.
The Twilight Warriors is the saga of the pilots, Sailors, and Marines – and their Japanese adversaries – who fought the last and bloodiest sea/air engagement of WWII, the battle for Okinawa. Released by Broadway, a division of Random House, November, 2010. Click on the jacket cover to go to the Amazon.com order page.
Flash 2.0!
Random House reports that The Twilight Warriors is a History Book Club Main Selection and a Featured Alternate of the Book of the Month Club and the Military Book Club.
Meanwhile, the U. S. Naval Institute Press has republished Gandt's classic China Clipper: The Age of the Great Flying Boats. The new edition appeared in the fall of 2010, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the China Clipper's historic trans-Pacific flight. The jacket features the famous painting by artist Dong Kingman of the China Clipper soaring westbound over the Golden Gate. Click on the jacket image to go directly to the Amazon.com catalogue page.
And in case you missed it... Intrepid: The Epic Story of America's Most Legendary Warship., now out in softcover. Available wherever books are sold.
Now on Kindle, Nook, and all Kindle apps including iPad..
All the Gandt books, including the Maxwell novels, are coming on line as e-books from Amazon.com. Available NOW are THE TWILIGHT WARRIORS, INTREPID, SKYGODS, WITH HOSTILE INTENT, ACTS OF VENGEANCE, BLACK STAR, SHADOWS OF WAR, THE KILLING SKY, BLACK STAR RISING, and FLY LOW FLY FAST, BOGEYS AND BANDITS for download to your reader. Click on these titles (in red font) to be taken to the Amazon catalogue page. The remaining non-fiction work, SEASON OF STORMS (1981), is being updated and reformatted and will be on line in the next few weeks.
Our web site is a work-in-progress. Drop in from time to time for some hangar talk, and we'll brief you on recent and upcoming books and what's new in the writing/flying business.
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