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Title: Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley ISBN: 0-316-10584-8 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.27 (125 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not Politically Correct - It's HISTORY
Comment: I am astounded at reviewers claiming this book to be ruined for its Politically Correct content. Bradley manages to do something that is rare in a history book - maintain perspective and balance. There is nothing PC about recounting the atrocities against civilians whether by Japanese or American hands. At no point does he try to equate them. Quite to the contrary, he makes it clear that the fire bombing of civilians in Japan was brought about by the proximity of workers and factories, that the atomic bomb *saved* lives, and that, by the numbers, the Japanese killed far more civilian non-combatants than did the Americans. Where he records American misdeeds, I believe he does so with the integrity of facts, not with some overarching political agenda.
This is a book that manages to give you perspective and understanding about *why* things happened as they did. It is not
some left-wing screed or Chomskyesque attack on America (Chomsky doesn't write this well). Read this book for yourself - ignore the politically insecure who did not like it. A solid A+ book
Rating: 2
Summary: Moral Equivalence - Bradley style
Comment: I cried when I read Flags of Our Fathers. The stories in Flyboys are compelling, but the author gets in the way.
James Bradley's story of his father and the other Iwo Jima flagraisers was remarkably free of the author's own biases. Flyboys is not.
Mr. Bradley seeks to establish moral equivalence between Japanese and American pre-war behavior for about 100 pages before he gets to the supposed core of the book. He has a very Nippon-centric view of the world, and he seems particularly solicitous of Hirohito, recounting the young emperor's upbringing in a militaristic environment as though that excused the later atrocities committed in his name.
This book should not be marketed as though it were a sequel to Flags of Our Fathers. It is at its heart an anti-war, even an anti-American book. While it praises individual pilots, it puts much of teh blame for the commencement of World War II on the U.S., with great sympathy shown for the Japanese.
Save your money. Get it from the library if you must, but don't expect the drama and objectivity shown in Flags of Our Fathers.
Rating: 3
Summary: Relentless
Comment: Bradley overuses the word "flyboy"- at least 1 million times. It reminds me of the Dizzy Gillespie song "Salt Peanuts". You go along for the ride, and there it is "Salt Peanuts. Salt Peanuts." You go along with Bradley and there it is "Flyboy. Flyboy." How about "Pilot" or "Aviator"? It's distracting. I can only imagine Bradley must have won a round of rock/paper/scissors with his editor to be able to include it as many times as he did. Other than that, a compelling gut-wrenching read.
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Title: Flags of Our Fathers by James Bradley, Ron Powers ISBN: 0553111337 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 02 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown ISBN: 0385504209 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 18 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom ISBN: 0786868716 Publisher: Hyperion Press Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship by JON MEACHAM ISBN: 0375505008 Publisher: Random House Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Bleachers by John Grisham ISBN: 0385511612 Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 09 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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