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Title: Titan Tales: Diary of a Titan II Missile Crew Commander. by John Womack, John H. Womack ISBN: 0-9655546-0-0 Publisher: Soliloquy Pr Pub. Date: 01 February, 1997 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Insiders view of what really happened
Comment: Having been down this road myself, I found this book engrossing, especially for the realistic accounts in the silos. I also liked the personal viewpoint of telling family stories amongst the military duties. Many of us like Major Womack led dual lives -the tough and pressured life with the missiles and the gentler side with our children. Top notch!
Rating: 5
Summary: The Human Side of Air Force Life
Comment: It was with great interest that I read this book having been a missle crew member on alert at the same locations. This book is a diary where the author gives you a rare personal look at his experiences as a leader, instructor and caring family man. Titan Tales describes the experiences of being on a SAC missle combat crew much as I remember it...the feeling of accomplishment from successfully working as a team solving simulated launch sequence problems, pulling 24 hour alerts, driving through the hills and small towns of Arkansas or riding in a "Huey" to the missle sites. P.S. Major Womack had more patience than me. I only tryed the golf course on base twice before trading in my clubs. Michael J. Brickels,(BMAT,USAF 1967-1971)
Rating: 1
Summary: Personal account, but not worth buying or reading
Comment: Maj. Womack writes a personal view of his time as a Titan II commander. Unfortunately, it's in diary format and includes a lot of irrelevant and uninteresting stuff. I didn't expect great literature, but the book is not compelling at all.
About 10 pages out of the about 150 are interesting. The two events worth reading about are when he and his crew actually launched a Titan II at Vandenberg AFB and a humorous anecdote about SAC's supertight security and confusion over the password and "duress" word used to gain or deny entry to the missile site.
I hate to say it, but pass this one by and save your money for a copy of Titan II by Stumpf.
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Title: Face to Face with the Bomb: Nuclear Reality after the Cold War by Paul Shambroom, Richard Rhodes ISBN: 0801872022 Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr Pub. Date: 17 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America by Tom Vanderbilt ISBN: 1568983050 Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press Pub. Date: March, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Dyna-Soar: Hypersonic Strategic Weapons System (Apogee Books Space Series) by Robert Godwin ISBN: 1896522955 Publisher: Apogee Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Titan II: A History of a Cold War Missile Program by David K. Stumpf, Jay W. Kelley ISBN: 1557286019 Publisher: Univ of Arkansas Pr Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $49.00 |
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