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American hero : the true story of Tommy Hitchcock : sports star, war hero, and champion of the war-winning P-51 Mustang /

Tommy Hitchcock: An American Hero intertwines the private lives of Tommy Hitchcock, an enormously wealthy socialite, and such notables as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Averell Harriman, Ambassador to England Gil Winant, FDR, and General Hap Arnold, commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces during WWII. To...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aldrich, Nelson W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Guildford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2016]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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500 |a Originally published under title: Tommy Hitchcock, an American hero. Gaithersburg, Md. : Fleet Street Corp., 1984. 
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505 0 |a Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Introduction; Chapter One. Aiken, Westbury, and St. Paul's School, 1900-1917; Chapter Two. France, 1917-1918; Chapter Three. Germany, 1918; Chapter Four. Freedom, 1918-1922; Chapter Five. New York, 1922-1927; Chapter Six. Courtship and Marriage, 1927-1929; Chapter Seven. The Thirties; Chapter Eight. Washington and London, 1940-1944; Epilogue: Tommy Hitchcock's Role in the Battle of the Atlantic; Appendix: Memories of a Hero; Index. 
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