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A review by novacain60
Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley
5.0
Between this book and Dan Carlin’s Supernova in the East six-part podcast, I feel I’ve finally been educated somewhat on the pacific war. I, probably like most people nowadays, didn’t know a whole lot about it. The killing and dying in the pacific was was particularly stunning. The sheer amount of mass killings that took place and the atrocities committed are hard to comprehend.
This book proves once again to me that people are just people, and that we all do what we’re taught to do. We hate, kill, rape, abuse, and commit horrible acts based on our cultural norms at the time.
Flyboys will likely make you very uncomfortable but James Bradley does a good job of dropping in perspective-correcting quotes from people that lived through it. For instance, the fact that the reaction of horror and shock to the dropping of the atom bomb is directly proportional to one’s ignorance of the pacific war. Or that modern day folks have more of a smoldering hatred toward the Japanese for WWII than the actual veterans that fought there.
I really enjoyed it and I’d recommend this book to anyone with even a small interest in the pacific war.
This book proves once again to me that people are just people, and that we all do what we’re taught to do. We hate, kill, rape, abuse, and commit horrible acts based on our cultural norms at the time.
Flyboys will likely make you very uncomfortable but James Bradley does a good job of dropping in perspective-correcting quotes from people that lived through it. For instance, the fact that the reaction of horror and shock to the dropping of the atom bomb is directly proportional to one’s ignorance of the pacific war. Or that modern day folks have more of a smoldering hatred toward the Japanese for WWII than the actual veterans that fought there.
I really enjoyed it and I’d recommend this book to anyone with even a small interest in the pacific war.