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A review by alidottie
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley
4.0
This was such a hard book to read!! I kept reminding myself that I am familiar with the perils and atrocities of war. Indeed I have read "Ghost Soldiers" (about the Bataan Death March soldier) and John McCain's memoir as a POW in a Japanese concentration camp and just last year, Laura Hillenbrand's "Unbroken" which spends a considerable amount of time describing life experiences of POWs in Japanese concentration camps. So why I kept asking myself did this book feel like I had never been introduced to WWII's war in the Pacific before?
I'm still not 100% sure, but I think it was the straightforward report of decapitations, rape, and cannabilism--beginning with the Japanese in China--that made me so depressed. War truly is hell and if you don't believe it, read this book!
I am going to be reviewing this for my group of little old ladies who are in their 90's. I will not share all the atrocities mentioned to them. I am sure that they will have plenty to share about this time--more than I can tell them!
I'm still not 100% sure, but I think it was the straightforward report of decapitations, rape, and cannabilism--beginning with the Japanese in China--that made me so depressed. War truly is hell and if you don't believe it, read this book!
I am going to be reviewing this for my group of little old ladies who are in their 90's. I will not share all the atrocities mentioned to them. I am sure that they will have plenty to share about this time--more than I can tell them!