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Title: Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down over Germany in World War II by Thomas Childers ISBN: 0-201-40722-1 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: May, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.89 (27 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Yes, I cried.
Comment: What a visceral impact Tom Childers' Wings of Morning had on me. Unable to put the book down, I read it in two days. Not only does the author vividly describe the training and every day life of a WWII bomber crew, he also makes you feel like Goodner's family, anxiously awaiting the next letter. Not wanting to give away the results of a frantic search to find out what happened to this crew after being shot down over Germany, let me suggest that you buy the book, curl up in your chair, and read as one hell of a story unfolds. Next to Guy Sajer's "The Forgotten Soldier", you'll have a hard time finding a better account of the war and the men who fought it. As an aside, Professor Childers has a superb course on WWII available through the Teaching Company. And I encourage all of you to seek it out as well.
Rating: 5
Summary: An exceptional book; insightful and moving...
Comment: Having heard all of Dr. Childer's excellent audio courses available from the Teaching Company, I had very high expectations for this book. I was not disappointed; Wings of Morning is an exceptional book that details the war time experiences of a B-24 bomber crew from their initial induction and training, to their deployment to England as part of the 8th Air Force, through their fateful final mission in the closing days of Word War II. A final mission, incidentally, that the reader can not help but conclude should have never been flown.
Based on hundreds of crewmember letters home, Wings of Morning provides insights that go far beyond the usual combat narrative. The combat experience is here to be sure, but so is the training, off-duty hours, weekend leaves, camaraderie, devotion to duty, exhilaration, boredom, bravery, fear, hope for the future, and the families back home. This book, more than any I've ever read, gave me an appreciation for the near constant tension that these men must have felt. I repeatedly found myself asking what I would have done in similar situations and realizing anew why those who fought World War II are rightly called the "Greatest Generation".
Wings of Morning does not end with the loss of a B-24 crew over Regensburg, Germany, in April of 1945 nor with the War Department notifications to the families waiting at home. Professor Childer's uncle was a crew member on that tragic flight and the final chapters of this extraordinary book detail his quest to reconstruct the final mission of a B-24 known as the Black Cat.
I've read and own many good books about World War II but none has had the impact of Wings of Morning. Thank you, Dr. Childers, for this insightful and thought provoking work...
Rating: 5
Summary: Duty Calls
Comment: This book is evidence of an America that will possibility never be again. An America where new immigrants and immigrants with a hundred years to their credit stood together in a life and death struggle. Where men from all sides of the track faced down the wickedness of a world gone.
This great book is a view of heroes who never expected to be and even today will not accept that designation -the only true character of a real hero.
Wings of Morning: The Story of the Last American Bomber Shot Down over Germany in World War II is one of the best-researched WWII stories to ever see print. But, what other than this could we expect from a historian of Dr. Childer's caliber? Well we did get more; much more, we were provided the opportunity to perceive a boy's love for an uncle he had never met and that is what puts heart into these pages. A warning here: on your reading your eyes may tear... but fear not the tears for there is no better eyewash.
There is not much more I can say without giving away the book, and I would never do that. What I will say is read Wings of Morning and you will soon be plunked down on the hardstand in the English countryside watching as Howard and his bothers-in-arms enter the Black Cat, looking back one last time as if to say "duty calls... see you later"...
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Title: In the Shadows of War: An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany by Thomas Childers ISBN: 0805057528 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 06 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Bomber Pilot: A Memoir of World War II by Philip Ardery ISBN: 0813108667 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Half a Wing, Three Engines and a Prayer by Brian D. O'Neill ISBN: 0071341455 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 30 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War by Paul Fussell ISBN: 0195065778 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland by Christopher R. Browning ISBN: 0060995068 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 17 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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