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Feb 26, 2015 · Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. Paperback – February 26, 2015. This first-hand account of the Doolittle Raid - the secret preparations, the war itself and the almost unbelievable adventures of the airmen in the weeks that followed – is one of the greatest stories of American bravery and ingenuity that has ever been written.
- Paperback
- Capt Ted W Lawson
Journalist, Author. He is best known for his syndicated column On the Line With Considine and for co-writing Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1943, with Ted W. Lawson), the story of the Lieutenant Colonel James Doolittle's 1942 air raid on Japan that became a best-selling book, and The Babe Ruth Story (1948, with Lawrence...
About the Book. Ted W. Lawson’s classic Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo appears in an enhanced reprint edition on the sixtieth anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan. “One of the worst feelings about that time,” Ted W. Lawson writes, “was that there was no tangible enemy. It was like being slugged with a single punch in a dark room, and ...
Originally published for adults in 1943, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo became a best-seller overnight, and later was made into a great motion picture. Voted by many teachers and librarians throughout the country as a book that deserves to be read by boys and girls, it has been carefully edited to conform with the standards already established in ...
Dec 04, 2022. really liked it. There are several things which make this book special. It is written in the first person by an aviator who flew a B-25 bomber in Doolittle's raid on the Japanese capital. It is an artifact of the era in which it was written (the mentions of the Japanese are neither respectful nor politically correct).
- Stephen
Jan 1, 2007 · Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo [Hardcover] Hardcover – January 1, 2007 by Ted W. Lawson (Author), Bob Considine (Author) 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 727 ratings
- Hardcover
- Ted W. Lawson, Bob Considine
Apr 1, 2003 · Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (Aviation Classics) Paperback – April 1, 2003 by Ted W. Lawson (Author), Peter Mersky (Foreword) 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 727 ratings
- Paperback
- Ted W. Lawson
