The Wings of the Nation
Szöveg: Bernád Dénes–Magó Károly–Punka György | 2013. augusztus 12. 9:34The sight of an aeroplane fills every child with wonder and longing. “I’m going to be a pilot!” is a familiar refrain. And over the years, many children have indeed become pilots and airmen. They are remembered by crumpled photographs, much-read letters, and a few stained documents, monuments and gravestones. We have been free to commemorate them for less than a quarter of a century.
Hungary has been living in peace for more than sixty years, guarded by supersonic aircraft flown by them. We often see them helping the victims of natural disasters, lending support to sober-minded countries trying to create peace among violent passions, and bringing humanitarian aid to people in need. We are proud when their professionalism elicits the admiration of top aviation experts and comrades. Hungarian airmen are known all around the world.
This is a book of thanks. It pays our respects to Hungarian airmen past and present. It is the work of three authors, none of them combat pilots, but all at one time children staring up at the blue sky with longing. They look at airmen in the same way as most readers, and for this very reason they notice things that perhaps the airmen themselves would not. They see, besides the aircraft, the people who fly them. The story of a country in the story of its airmen. And a nation’s frequently-battered wings of desire in the outstretched eagle’s wings of its pilots.
| Year of publish: | 2013 | |
| Language: | English/Hungaraian | |
| Number of pages: | 260 pages with 360 pictures | |
| Size: | 242×280 mm | |
| Binding: | sewn, hardcover, with DVD and poster | |
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| ISBN: | ISBN 978 963 327 584 9 | |
| Price: | 35 USD + delivery fee | |
| Stock: | You can buy the book directly from the publisher: Postal address: 1087 Hungary, Budapest, Kerepesi út 29/b, Fax: 06-1-459-5382, Points of contact: Edina Győr: +36-30-578-1048, [email protected]; Cynthia Bartha: +36-30-633-0619, [email protected] |
