Description:
"Riveting.... [R]estores the 1919 achievement of those two young men, Alcock and Brown, to their rightful place in aviation history." --Julia Flynn Siler, Wall Street Journal
The inspiring story of a pathbreaking 1919 flight and the courageous fliers who risked their lives to make aviation history.
Brief description: David Rooney is a historian and curator specializing in transport, technology, and engineering, and the author of About Time and The Big Hop. For almost twenty years he worked at the London Science Museum, which houses the 1919 airplane first flown across the Atlantic. He lives in London.
Review Quotes: [Rooney is] a master of suspense.... What Grann did for 18th-century seafaring, David Rooney achieves for early aeronautics and its first heroes.--Miranda Seymour "Literary Review"