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Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Astor, a journalist and narrator of popular World War II historical subjects, has combed the latest published memoirs and collected numerous oral interviews to assemble what will probably be the best eyewitness account of the daytime air raids over German-occupied Europe. Besides the usual recollections of bomber and fighter pilots, he also presents the viewpoints of the air gunners and mechanics, bombardiers, and navigators who fought alongside them. Best of all, Astor has the Ernie Pyle-like knack of presenting his subjects as distinct personalities who stay in the reader's mind. The book is intelligently organized, systematically following the Eighth from its hesitant beginnings to its climax as a combat juggernaut, all the while keeping its story in perspective with the larger picture of the European war. The result is a compelling document of the air war. Recommended for all public and academic collections.?Raymond L. Puffer, Edwards AFB, Cal.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
Though Booklist has reviewed Astor's last few semiannual offerings, individual libraries know whether his World War II narratives circulate. As in Astor's preceding "voices of" accounts of D-Day, Okinawa, and the Bulge, his style and method remain the same. Astor stitches together about a hundred eyewitness experiences of the combat, linking them with a workmanlike narrative of the battle's course. Here he presents the saga, frequently disastrous, of American daylight bombing against Germany. However ineffective the strategic campaign was, and historians agree it had little effect until late 1944, it was rationalized as the only contribution the U.S. could immediately make to the war while mobilization revved up. Thus, the first part of Astor's story is a pathetic one of small numbers of B-17s facing long odds of survival against flak and swarms of ME-109s, phasing into a more successful period as fighters arrived to protect the bombers. Riveting vignettes of dogfights and destruction for active World War II collections. Gilbert Taylor --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Astor, a journalist and narrator of popular World War II historical subjects, has combed the latest published memoirs and collected numerous oral interviews to assemble what will probably be the best eyewitness account of the daytime air raids over German-occupied Europe. Besides the usual recollections of bomber and fighter pilots, he also presents the viewpoints of the air gunners and mechanics, bombardiers, and navigators who fought alongside them. Best of all, Astor has the Ernie Pyle-like knack of presenting his subjects as distinct personalities who stay in the reader's mind. The book is intelligently organized, systematically following the Eighth from its hesitant beginnings to its climax as a combat juggernaut, all the while keeping its story in perspective with the larger picture of the European war. The result is a compelling document of the air war. Recommended for all public and academic collections.?Raymond L. Puffer, Edwards AFB, Cal.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
Though Booklist has reviewed Astor's last few semiannual offerings, individual libraries know whether his World War II narratives circulate. As in Astor's preceding "voices of" accounts of D-Day, Okinawa, and the Bulge, his style and method remain the same. Astor stitches together about a hundred eyewitness experiences of the combat, linking them with a workmanlike narrative of the battle's course. Here he presents the saga, frequently disastrous, of American daylight bombing against Germany. However ineffective the strategic campaign was, and historians agree it had little effect until late 1944, it was rationalized as the only contribution the U.S. could immediately make to the war while mobilization revved up. Thus, the first part of Astor's story is a pathetic one of small numbers of B-17s facing long odds of survival against flak and swarms of ME-109s, phasing into a more successful period as fighters arrived to protect the bombers. Riveting vignettes of dogfights and destruction for active World War II collections. Gilbert Taylor --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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