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circularcubes's review against another edition
2.0
Clearly very well researched, but difficult to read due to a lack of storyline or cohesion. I would have appreciated having a few central people's stories better told to illustrate what the everyday experience was like for an AVG fighter, an AVG technician, and for Chennault himself (the closest thing to a protagonist this book has). Without it, the book is just a long list of who was sent to what city with which planes, and who fought who on which day, and then inevitable "so and so claimed to have shot down 8 planes, but the records show that only 2 planes were shot down that day." Interesting, but not compelling.
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