The Grave Stompers is the fictional journey of Birdie and Guff, two ex-Army Air Service pilots who seek independence and fortune in the air following World War One. After selling airplane rides town to town, the boys form an air circus, during which a near disastrous stunt gets Birdie discovered by a Hollywood film maker. Birdie and Guff enjoy a fleeting career as action serial stars. Chronic fiscal insolvency results in a number of remarkable stunts and even takes them south of the border as mercenaries in the Cristero War of 1926. They eventually participate in one of the greatest flying movies ever made. While Birdie and Guff may be fictional, their adventures and exploits are based on actual events from the 1920’s, when flying and wing walking stunts considered suicidal today were commonplace. There are laughs and love in this fast-paced book. And tears. The Grave Stompers celebrates risk but never sidesteps the heartbreak that shadows it.

The Grave Stompers: A Flying Odyssey

Literature & Fiction

Fusco, Pete

Action & Adventure

Speedwing

The statues in the derelict Church of Martyrs were hard to ignore even before they moved. The sculptor had portrayed them in the throes of their gruesome martyrdoms; wrathful jeweled eyes had stalked nervous parishioners from the day the church opened in 1902. Though the church is closed and abandoned, the statues within are not through scaring people. They have fumed in silence for many years, biding their time, waiting for an opportunity to redirect the Catholic Church back to the ideals for which they died such hideous deaths. They require a little assistance, notably from a cynical and reluctant ex-priest, a reformed assassin, an abused woman, a blustery Cleveland cop, a Gypsy priest from the rainforest and, of course, the newly-elected Pope Celestine the Sixth. The statues make a bloody debut into the human world; the mayhem they create in the middle of the night in the darkened ruins of the Church of Martyrs launches the collected cast on a risky undertaking none of them want but can't avoid.

Church of Martyrs

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

An adventure-filled romp through one of aviation’s most notable, dangerous and entertaining pursuits: airshows! In the early days of aviation, all flights were airshows. Spectators gathered whenever a new flying machine attempted to leave the ground—the trick was to get them to pay. Takeoffs and landings did not sell tickets but people lined up, money in hand, to watch a “dip of death,” in which an aviator would dive from as high as he or she dared and pull up at the last second. Risk always sells and flying was man’s riskiest endeavor yet. From the start the “exhibition pilots” stood out. Everything about an aerobatic routine requires a degree of skill and a commitment to practice inconceivable to even most pilots, presenting innumerable risks to life and limb. And with risk, often, comes tragedy. The Crowd Pleasers is a sweeping history of air show accidents beginning in 1910 with the death of Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce, and ending in the present day. It brings to light some of the most notable air show accidents of all time and explores the aviators behind them. Their stories, their motivations. In so doing, it illuminates the role played by choice, social circumstance and fate in these often devastating accidents, and the lives attached to them. A must-read for all aviation buffs.

The Crowd Pleasers: A History of Airshow Misfortunes from 1910 to the Present

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Skyhorse

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