David Fairbank White
Auteur van Bitter Ocean: The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945
Werken van David Fairbank White
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- White, David Fairbank
- Geboortedatum
- 1951
- Geslacht
- male
Leden
Besprekingen
Statistieken
- Werken
- 4
- Leden
- 114
- Populariteit
- #171,985
- Waardering
- 3.0
- Besprekingen
- 4
- ISBNs
- 11
- Talen
- 1
I admit I was nervous when it says right on the cover, "The WWII fighter plane that saved the Allies..." There is much here that is rah rah Air Force and it gets old fast for someone who prefers a more balanced view of the war. The Whites talk a lot about Bombers and how they sustained many casualties, but there is little-to-no mention of the civilian lives lost on the ground, or even a cursory examination of the morality/necessity of strategic bombing at all. Their interest in key figures who had a hand in the development of the P-51 is obvious, but the writing is so hagiographic that it becomes a slog to read through. Just overly disgusted overall with what could have been an interesting book.… (meer)