Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
by James Bradley
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Author: James BradleyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-09-14
ISBN: 0316159433
Number of pages: 464
Publisher: Back Bay Books
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- ISBN13: 9780316159432
- Condition: USED - Good
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Book Review: A "history" book about World War Two by an author who runs a Peace Foundation?
Summary: 2 Stars
If you don't think James Bradley has a political adgenda in writing this book, think again. Not only is Bradley the head of his own Peace Foundation, but his Peace Foundation sends American school children to study in Japan for a year.
The first 1/3rd of this book is a thinly veiled bashing of American foreign policy for the past 150 years. In addition he consistantly colors the facts to suit his political adgenda. For example, on page 68, in talking about 250,000 Filipinos killed in the 1899-1902 Philippine-American War, Bradley states: "So Hitler and Tojo combined, with all their mechanized weaponry, killed about the same per month -- 7,000 -- as the American "civilizers" did in the Philippines." In making this comparison, Bradley convienently ignores over 25 million Chinese, British, French and Russians that Germany and Japan killed during the war.
If you stopped reading the book after about 100 pages you would think that Japan had no other choice than to go to war and that World War 2 was America's fault.
That Bradley has no respect for the US military, and never served his country, is obvious in his constantly calling senior US officers by their first name, General Doolittle becomes "Jimmy" and General Billy Mitchell becomes "Billy." And these heroic American pilots are called "boys" and "Flyboys" all through the book. He even capitalized "Flyboys" as if it is some sort of official title. And worst of all, President Roosevelt in consistantly called, "the Dutchman."
If it was not for the personal tales of the pilots he focuses on, and he does tell their stories very well, I would have tossed the book early on.
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