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Title: Winged Victory: The Army Air Forces in World War II by Geoffrey Perret ISBN: 0-375-75047-9 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.57 (7 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Check the facts
Comment: I picked up this book because I was researching my grandfather, who was a B-17 pilot shot down over Switzerland. I looked this up in the book, and immediately found inaccurate information. The author claims that only 10 crews made it to Switzerland in March of 1944, yet when my grandfather was shot down on 18 March 15 other crews were interned by the Swiss on the same day, the highest number in the entire war. The author also claims that many of the bombers landed with little or no damage, insinuating that they were intentionally getting out of the war. This is also false- the AAF conducted an extensive investigation during the war, and found that almost every bomber that landed in Switzerland had extensive damage. I'm not sure where the information in the book came from, but it is incorrect. Any crewman interned in Swizerland could have set the record straight in that regard, and there are plenty of them around who belong to the Swiss Internees Association.
Rating: 3
Summary: Highs and lows...
Comment: It is very difficult to reach a conclusion about the real quality ot this book. Intended to be a general picture of USAAF in WW II, it lacks appendices, a place where much of the lack of information in the book could be informed. It talks very little about the pilots, only about generals, and in some parts it is really a boring reading. On the other side, we must consider the author had only one book to show his point, and he did the best possible.
Rating: 2
Summary: Not real history
Comment: This guy does not check his facts with primary sources and has many axes to grind. He has admited in interviews that he is not really an historian, but is rather a writer with research assistants and relies mostly on secondary sources. Useful only to those who know not where else to go. Really has it in for the B-29 and Hap Arnold.
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Title: The Transformation of American Air Power (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs) by Benjamin S. Lambeth ISBN: 0801438160 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: American Generalship: Character Is Everything, the Art of Command by Edgar F. Puryear ISBN: 0891417702 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Beyond the Wild Blue: A History of the United States Airforce by Walter J. Boyne ISBN: 031218705X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Every Man a Tiger by Tom Clancy, Chuck, General Horner, Chuck Horner ISBN: 0425172929 Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group Pub. Date: 01 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The 5 Pillars of Tqm: How to Make Total Quality Management Work for You by Bill Creech ISBN: 0452271029 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1995 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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