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Forged in Fire: Strategy and Decisions in the Airwar over Europe 1940-1945
Details the personal and professional relationships of the men who developed and strengthened American air power
- GenresWorld War II
531 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 1982
About the author
Dewitt S. Copp
15 booksDeWitt Samuel Copp was a writer whose work often focused on the Cold War,
He wrote more than 30 books, fiction and nonfiction, and many articles about the cold war and espionage, as well as another passion, aviation. A flight instructor and pilot, he served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Later as the international marketing director of the Weather Engineering Corporation, Copp helped develop equipment that created artificial rain by using airplanes that dropped silver-iodide crystals into clouds.
Mr. Copp began writing professionally at 19, when his first radio play was broadcast. After the war, he wrote radio and television plays for Kraft Theater, the Bell Telephone Hour and the Hallmark Hall of Fame.
He published his first book, an aviation thriller, ''Radius of Action,'' in 1960. In 1961 he and Marshall Peck Jr., an editor at The New York Herald Tribune, wrote ''Betrayal at the U.N.,'' an investigation into the death of Paul Bang-Jensen, a former Danish diplomat at the United Nations.
Hoping to increase United States support for the government in Taiwan, their next collaboration, ''The Odd Day'' (1962), told of the Chinese Communist shelling of the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Other works by Mr. Copp include ''Incident at Boris Gleb''; ''Overview,'' a history of aerial photography; and ''Famous Soviet Spies.''
Mr. Copp also taught history and civics at St. Luke's School in Wilton, Conn., and worked for the Central Intelligence Agency.
He wrote more than 30 books, fiction and nonfiction, and many articles about the cold war and espionage, as well as another passion, aviation. A flight instructor and pilot, he served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
Later as the international marketing director of the Weather Engineering Corporation, Copp helped develop equipment that created artificial rain by using airplanes that dropped silver-iodide crystals into clouds.
Mr. Copp began writing professionally at 19, when his first radio play was broadcast. After the war, he wrote radio and television plays for Kraft Theater, the Bell Telephone Hour and the Hallmark Hall of Fame.
He published his first book, an aviation thriller, ''Radius of Action,'' in 1960. In 1961 he and Marshall Peck Jr., an editor at The New York Herald Tribune, wrote ''Betrayal at the U.N.,'' an investigation into the death of Paul Bang-Jensen, a former Danish diplomat at the United Nations.
Hoping to increase United States support for the government in Taiwan, their next collaboration, ''The Odd Day'' (1962), told of the Chinese Communist shelling of the islands of Quemoy and Matsu. Other works by Mr. Copp include ''Incident at Boris Gleb''; ''Overview,'' a history of aerial photography; and ''Famous Soviet Spies.''
Mr. Copp also taught history and civics at St. Luke's School in Wilton, Conn., and worked for the Central Intelligence Agency.
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October 22, 2019
This book, along with A Few Great Captains, is one of the most influential, profoundly developmental, and professionally and intellectually challenging books I’ve ever read. My interest in aviation history was sparked by the stories of young men grappling at odds thousands of feet in the air, yet this book forced me to think as a field grade, expanding my understanding to the logistical, equipping, and personnel problems of building a war winning force from scratch given monumental constraints of budgets, politics, and interpersonal squabbling. The discussion of the impact of lend lease on the growth of the AAF proved fascinating. This book helped me become a Major.
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