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savyy's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Rape, Sexual violence, Suicide, Torture, Violence, Cannibalism, Murder, and War
gracelynmarie's review against another edition
4.0
was for school but i actually enjoyed it more than i thought i would :)
very gruesome so trigger warnings
very gruesome so trigger warnings
tony_t's review against another edition
dark
emotional
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fast-paced
4.5
Essentially an abbreviated history of the air war in the Pacific during WWII. By turns inspiring, informative and depressing this volume is a comprehensive and detailed story which focuses on the tiny island of Chichi Jima, near Iwo Jima. Highly recommended.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture, Violence, and War
tanyarobinson's review against another edition
3.0
This book is a good example of a project where the author discovered a lot of interesting material that didn't directly deal with his subject, but found a way to insert it in his book anyway. Only about half of Flyboys' pages discussed the 8 American flyboys held by the Japanese at Chichi Jima (and it's pretty gruesome stuff at that). The rest went off on random tangents - the 1942 Doolittle Raid over Tokyo, eyewitness details about the 1945 Tokyo firebombings, a lengthy discussion about Japan's attempt to enter the world of imperialism after its long period of isolation... All of these topics certainly belong in a larger study of the Pacific War, but I couldn't see any rhyme or reason to what Bradley chose to include and exclude from this little book supposedly about the long-concealed fates of 8 prisoners of war.
booksandhappy1987's review against another edition
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5.0
✔️Flyboys by James Bradley
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“The airmen were considered the most important passengers on the carriers.”
This is a nonfiction book that tells the story of 9 young men who were sent to bomb Japanese communications towers. It gives the reader a look into the mindset of the Japanese during this time and how the their prisoners of war were treated. I haven’t found many WWII books that focus on Japan, so I found this to be really interesting.
I thought the German Nazis were bad during WWII, but the actions of the Japanese were despicable.
Each of the flyboys were heroes. I will forever be grateful for our military and our veterans.