Books : Flyboys: A True Story of Courage

by: James Bradley  Average Rating:

Rating: - A mixed bag.
I've spent two decades of my life working at a government archives. I've seen first hand the relief and healing that truth, however awful, can bring to people who've lost loved ones to violence and spent years afterward wondering about details kept locked away in secret files. "It's better if they don't know what happened, because it's just too horrible," sounds like a bureaucratic kindness. But as the mother of one of this book's FLYBOYS says, "...it was not half as terrible as what I had imagined ... Read More

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Rating: - Stephen Ambrose meets Noam Chomsky
Save your money. What masquerades as a portrait of the courage of our WW II flyers, turns out to be a hatchet job on the country they defended. I feel terrible for Pres. George H.W. Bush who was bamboozled into cooperating with Bradley in this project, (Bush was one of the pilots involved in the events depicted.) I'm sure he gagged when he read the finished product.
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Rating: - Not such a bad narrative
I feel it necessary to throw my two cents in after reading some very emotional reviews of Bradley's book.
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