The 12 O'Clock High Logbook by Allan T Duffin

The 12 O'Clock High Logbook by Allan T Duffin

Since its original release The 12 O'Clock High Logbook: The Unofficial History of the Novel, Motion Picture, and TV Series has been a consistent seller among WI buffs, lovers of aviation, and fans of Hollywood TV and movies. The book, a labor of love for co-authors Allan T. Duffin and Paul Matheis, is a detailed, comprehensive look at a media phenomenon.

Army Air Force officers Beirne Lay, Jr., and Sy Bartlett wrote the novel 12 O'Clock High as a somewhat fictionalized record of their experiences in England during World War I. Twentieth Century-Fox optioned the book and produced the 1949 movie version starring Gregory Peck as tough-as-nails Brigadier General Frank Savage. In 1964, prolific producer Quinn Martin (The Untouchables, The FBI) brought 12 O'Clock High to television as a weekly series on ABC, starring Robert Lansing as Savage.

Packed with fresh interviews, rare photographs, and behind-the-scenes stories published for the first time anywhere, The 12 O'Clock High Logbook is the definitive history of this unique tale of heroism in World War I.