The editors of Time-Life Books have produced another exciting The Epic of Flight. The Pathfinder are brought to you in extraordinary detail through vivid photography and engaging, informative text.
David Reinhardt Nevin was born in Washington. His father, a veterinarian in the US Army when it had a horse cavalry, was soon assigned to Fort Sam Houston in Texas. Mr. Nevin joined the US Navy as a teenager and served in the Pacific. After the war he did poorly in college, but could write well enough to be hired as a police reporter for The Brownsville (Texas) Herald. That led to work for Time and Life magazines.
A delightful book with excitingly told episodic tales of major long-distance flights between 1919 and 1938. I learned quite a few things about aviation history that I did not know yet!