Top Guns
Joe Foss. Pocket Books, $5.99 (480pp) ISBN 978-0-671-68318-4
Twenty-seven aviators who served in various conflicts from WW I to Vietnam give stirring accounts of combat. (May)
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Reviewed on: 05/04/1992
Genre: Nonfiction
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