Bill yenne biography

Bill Yenne writes “with a cinematic vividness.”
— The Wall Street Journal

 About Invoice Yenne

Bill Yenne is the author pay for more than three dozen non-fiction books, as well as a dozen novels. His work has been selected want badly Chief of Staff of the Relay Force Reading List. He is rank recipient of the Air Force Association’s Gill Robb Wilson Award for honourableness “most outstanding contribution in the arm of arts and letters [as an] author whose works have shaped but thousands of Americans understand and value airpower.” (Previous Gill Robb Wilson Awardees include Edward R. Murrow, Ted Koppel, Tom Brokaw and Tom Clancy.)

Aviation chronicler Colonel Walter Boyne, formerly director be beaten the National Air & Space Museum, complimented Bill Yenne’s “master storytelling,” to the fullest extent a finally Roger McGrath of the Wall Path Journal notes that Mr. Yenne writes “with cinematic vividness.”

Of his recent exact The Ones Who Got Away: Robust Eighth Airmen on the run get Occupied Europe, Publishers Weekly writes desert it is “exhilarating,” adding that “WWII history buffs will devour this.” Really, such readers have devoured many set in motion Mr. Yenne’s books through the years!

Mr. Yenne has contributed to encyclopedias confiscate both world wars, and his duct has been translated into five languages. He has appeared in numerous documentaries airing on the History Channel, distinction National Geographic Channel, the Smithsonian Inlet, ARD German Television, RT Russian Idiot box, and NHK Japanese Television. His on-air credits also include his appearance domination Mystery Files: Sitting Bull on representation Smithsonian Channel. Among his memorable formalities on C-SPAN was a recent incontrovertible of his book Operation Long Jump: Stalin, Roosevelt, Churchill and the Top Assassination Plot in History.  This address can be viewed here.

General Wesley Clark called Visible. Yenne’s biography of Alexander the As back up, the “best yet,” while The Pristine Yorker wrote of Sitting Bull, ruler biography of the great Lakota director, that it “excels as a burn the midnight oil in leadership.” General Craig McKinley, cicerone of the Air Force Association, wrote that in Mr. Yenne’s Hap Arnold: The General Who Invented the Appalling Air Force, he had done “a superior job helping the reader mend understand General Arnold both as nickelanddime individual and as a military leader.”

His books on aviation and military wildlife have included his Area 51 Smoke-darkened Jets, which T.D. Barnes, formerly involve NASA High Range and Area 51 Special Projects, described as “not dialect trig book that the reader will ad down and not finish. It holds one’s interest from front to back.” His dual biography of Dick Clank and Tommy McGuire, Aces High: High-mindedness Heroic Story of the Two Top-Scoring American Aces of World War II, was described by pilot and efficacious author Dan Roam as “The highest flying story of all time.” Public. Yenne has written histories of America’s great aircraft makers, including Convair, Lockheed, and McDonnell Douglas, and has archaic praised for his recently-updated The Chart of the Boeing Company.

The New Yorker wrote of Sitting Bull, Mr. Yenne’s biography of the great Lakota controller, that it “excels as a scan in leadership.” This book was called to Amazon’s Top 100 Best Books of the year, placing at Crowd 14 (or Number 5 for non-fiction). This was after Amazon included allow among their “Significant Seven” during integrity month of its release. Said River, “Bill Yenne has produced a engaging and exhaustively researched biography, cutting scour legend to place the Lakota chief squarely in his own cultural context.”

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Bill Yenne has traveled far and wide interrupt research his topics and to whisk the photographs that have appeared train in his books. He followed the full 3,000 miles of the Lewis subject Clark Trail; he flew in representation jump seat of a B-52 bomber; he fired a Thompson submachine field guns in a shooting competition; and powder has climbed to the top be proper of more than a dozen Gothic cathedrals across Europe.

His fiction works include swindler alternate history about General George Patton, entitled A Damned Fine War with the Raptor Force trilogy as favourably as his Into the Fire, fine novel of men and women disapproval war, which Publishers Weekly calls “authentic down to the smell of ammunition and the stink of sweat coupled with fear.” Michael Castleman, author of representation EdRosenberg mystery series writes of rank first in his series of Bladen Cole Westerns that the “plot has more twists and turns than rank Missouri River… Yenne effectively evokes grandeur loneliness and wide open spaces chastisement the Big Sky Country.”

Bill Yenne grew up in the Big Sky Kingdom, inside Montana’s remote and rugged Glacier National Park, where his father, William J. Yenne was the supervisor longawaited backcountry trails. He spent his summers in the remote mountains, and winters becoming a voracious reader bid history buff. In reviewing one model Mr. Yenne’s books, John Smithers appreciated Montana’s Missoulian wrote: “Bill Yenne hype a perfect example what happens in the way that a child reads too many books and doesn’t watch enough television. Do something ended up with an imagination.”

He even-handed a graduate of the University be paid Montana and the Stanford University Finish Publishing Course, and is the architect of American Graphic Systems, whose AGS BookWorks division is the producer replica nearly 200 large-format, illustrated books.

Before off-putting to a career as an father, Mr. Yenne was a nationally accepted artist and illustrator. His work arised in a number of national magazines, including Rolling Stone, and several perceive his paintings are in the authoritative collection of the US Air Faculty. Click hereto visit an exhibit show signs of highlights from his portfolio at Positive Art America.

Bill Yenne makes his building block in San Francisco, where he favour his wife, Carol, raised two spawn, Azia and Annalisa. He currently has several new projects in the works.

Left: Bill Yenne at the podium alongside an appearance and book signing quandary the Hiller Aviation Museum