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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Project Seven Alpha review
Overall, I found Shanle's book entertaining, informative and a great read! It is quite obvious that the author has quite a bit of aviation experience, but more importantly, he is a master story teller. Shanle has the ability to put the reader in the cockpit so you can literally feel the adrenaline kick in as the flying becomes a matter of life and death. Although the book...
Published 23 months ago by M. Horsefield
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A novel, not a history
Project 7A is a significant event in the history of American Airlines' involvement in the Air Transport Command during WWII. This was flying across the Himalayas, the route that came to be known as "The Hump". Although the initial impression, from the title itself, is that this book is at least partly an historical account, it is actually a novel, and not...
Published 24 months ago by Anthony L. Vallillo Jr.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Project Seven Alpha review,
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This review is from: PROJECT SEVEN ALPHA: AMERICAN AIRLINES IN BURMA 1942 (Hardcover)
Overall, I found Shanle's book entertaining, informative and a great read! It is quite obvious that the author has quite a bit of aviation experience, but more importantly, he is a master story teller. Shanle has the ability to put the reader in the cockpit so you can literally feel the adrenaline kick in as the flying becomes a matter of life and death. Although the book may not be completely historically accurate, I think the author's intent was to piece together many factual events into one coherent story and I would say that in this regard he succeeded where most others fail. I liked the book so much that I bought a copy for my father (retired aviator) and my father in law (WW2 aviation buff). The surprise was that my MOM ended up loving the book the most and she couldn't put it down. Again, a great story and a quick read (because you can't put it down).
I hope they make a movie from this story!
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
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A novel, not a history,
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This review is from: PROJECT SEVEN ALPHA: AMERICAN AIRLINES IN BURMA 1942 (Hardcover)
Project 7A is a significant event in the history of American Airlines' involvement in the Air Transport Command during WWII. This was flying across the Himalayas, the route that came to be known as "The Hump".
Although the initial impression, from the title itself, is that this book is at least partly an historical account, it is actually a novel, and not too terribly historically accurate at that. The author, who is an AA pilot himself (and should know better!), makes some frankly embarrasing mistakes in the chronology of 7A, and keeps using modern aviation terms that were not in use in that era. Case in point-the term V1, referring to a safety speed during takeoff, was most certainly not used in the DC-3 era. A non-pilot might not know that, but things like that (and there are more of them) will drive a pilot nuts! That aside, the book is entertaining as an historical novel very loosely based on facts. For a better look at 7A, though, I recommend Fate is the Hunter, by Ernest K. Gann, or To the Four Winds, by James Mangan. Tony Vallillo Captain, American Airlines, ( ret) |
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PROJECT SEVEN ALPHA: AMERICAN AIRLINES IN BURMA 1942 by Leland Shanle (Hardcover - Apr. 2009)
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