{"product_id":"9780698155015","title":"Hit the Target: Eight Men who Led The Eighth Air Force to Victory over the Luftwaffe","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Bill Yenne, author of the military histories \u003ci\u003eBig Week \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAces High\u003c\/i\u003e, comes the stirring true story of the Eighth Air Force in World War II.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLess than a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Army formed its first air force designated to operate overseas, the Eighth. Within four months, they had set up base in England. Three months later, they were bombing German targets in occupied Europe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Eighth was the first bomber command on either side to commit to strategic daylight bombing. It was a major change in tactics—and the men of the Eighth paid the price in both lives and blood. But it was that very sacrifice that led the Allies to victory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHit the Target \u003c\/i\u003eintroduces readers to those who made the Eighth Air Force the formidable juggernaut it soon became. Men of all ranks, from General Tooey Spaatz, the hard-driving founding commander, to Colonel Jimmy Doolittle, the hero who led the first air raid on Japan, to Maynard “Snuffy” Smith, the irascible first airman in Europe to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and Robert “Rosie” Rosenthal, who survived his time with the “Bloody Hundredth,” which lost airmen at a horrifying rate, and who went on to serve as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of the Mighty Eighth is told through these men, whose careers paralleled the early history of aviation  and who helped  to revolutionize airborne warfare and win World War II.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eINCLUDES PHOTOS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076257235184,"sku":"9780698155015","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780698155015_p0.jpg?v=1763626489","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780698155015","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}