I Always Wanted to Fly: America's Cold War Airmen

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. First edition. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xix, [1], 363, [1] pages. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Interviews, Letters, and Tapes. Index. Signed by author. DJ has slight wear and soiling, and is in plastic cover. Wolfgang W.E. Samuel (born February 2, 1935) is a German-born American author and a veteran of the United States Air Force. Samuel attended the University of Colorado at Boulder, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business in 1960, and subsequently the National War College. He served in the United States Air Force for 30 years, retiring with the rank of colonel in 1985. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal multiple times during his years of active duty. [ His second book, I Always Wanted to Fly: America's Cold War Airmen, is a compilation of oral histories of American aviators of the Cold War era. As of 2015, Samuel has published eight books. The first, German Boy: A Child in War, is a memoir detailing the war years and his post-war life as a refugee, and features a foreword by historian Stephen Ambrose. His second book, I Always Wanted to Fly: America's Cold War Airmen, is a compilation of oral histories of American aviators of the Cold War era.