A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman Summary and Reviews

A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
by Charles W. Dryden, Benjamin O. Davis

A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman
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Author: Benjamin O. Davis, Charles W. Dryden
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-06-26
ISBN: 0817312668
Number of pages: 440
Publisher: University Alabama Press

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Book Review: Excellent memoir of a man from an interesting age
Summary: 5 Stars

I initially bought this book expecting it to be similar to the other slew of WWII books out there ( The ME-109 dove at me out of the sun with guns blazing...). Instead I got an honest account of a man who wanted to fly for his country and be treated with the same respect as any other pilot. Dryden's memories and descriptions of his voyage through training to be a pilot as well as the segregated and de-segregated Air Force are interesting and honest. Dryden't narrative is not the heart-pounding, can't-put-the-book down type but rather the story of a man who, faced with tremendous adversity from his own society and country, persevered. There is no bitterness in Dryden's story, and I put the book down tremendously impressed by his belief in himself, in his religion and his friend. It's a good book

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