Vládcové nebes – Miller Donald L. (2025)

Lords of the Sky is a personal story of the "boys from the bombers" during World War II, who brought this war conflict right to Berlin itself. In 1943, a crew member of an American bomber had only a one in five chance of surviving his tour – twenty-five missions. The Eighth Air Force lost more men in the war than the entire U.S. Marine Corps did throughout the war. With the narrative power of fiction, Donald L. Miller takes his readers on a nerve-wracking ride under fire through the skies over Berlin, Hanover, and Dresden, while also depicting the terrible price the Germans themselves paid for the bombings. Lords of the Sky is, among other things, a story about life in wartime England and in German prisoner-of-war camps, where tens of thousands of airmen spent part of the war. The book concludes with a vivid description of the horrific death marches that captured airmen had to endure across the land destroyed by their bombs towards the end of the war. The author draws from interviews, oral histories, and American, British, German, and other archives. This book is a deeply moving account of the first and only bombing war in the world.