No Easy Days: The Incredible Drama of Naval Aviation

by L. Douglas Keeney, William S. Butler

Naval aviation is the most demanding flight environment in the world and this book shows why that is true. From World War II F6F Hellcats to F-18 Hornets, No Easy Days presents the incredible world of aircraft carrier mishaps and accidents using dramatic still photos and photo sequences taken directly from the flight deck itself. Includes dramatic ramp strikes, wave-offs, cold cats and much, much more.

Genres: History

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1995

About the author

L. Douglas Keeney is an author, historian, commentator and speaker with twenty-two books in print from Simon & Schuster, St. Martins/Macmillan, HarperCollins and Lyons Press. Keeney’s passion is to unearth the lost stories in world history and in those stories find the fabric of the people we are today. To that end, Keeney has written about events as seminal as 9/11 and World War II, as entertaining as the fashionable roots of the French Riviera, as revealing as the profiles of such luminaries as Curtis LeMay John F. Kennedy, and Franklin Roosevelt, and as unusual as those who pioneered international aviation and travel into space. He is an engaging speaker who has entertained hundreds of audiences across the nation.

Keeney’s books have been well reviewed by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Naval Institute Press, slate, The New Yorker and more than one hundred other newspapers and magazines.

He has a master’s degree in Economics, is a pilot and scuba diver and was the cofounder of cable TV’s The Military Channel. He has appeared as a subject matter expert and commentator on Fox TV, CBS, PBS, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, The Learning Channel, and on numerous radio shows.