Reader recommendation: The Aviators

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The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight By Winston Groom National Geographic Society 464 pp.

If you like American history, and especially aviation, you will love The Aviators, by Winston Groom. It is told through the lives of Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, and Charles Lindbergh – all people that we think we are familiar with, but it is surprising to learn how much they accomplished.

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