In which a noted naval historian dissects the legend of the great airman and it's hard to not come away with the intended impact that Billy Mitchell was probably his own worst enemy and truly deserved his court martial. That said, I do get a little sense of misplaced smugness at the end of the book where Wildenberg considers the paltry accomplishments of the USAAF level bombers at Midway. I would dryly note that perhaps the real lesson that one should take away from this, and which Wildenberg does allude to in passing, is that the lack of Army-Navy defense cooperation between the world wars served no one well and it certainly would not have hurt for there to be an effective USAAF anti-ship and maritime recon capacity in place; consider the fate of the "Prince of Wales" & "Renown." The Navy arguably had enough on its plate making aircraft carriers work without pursuing high-performance land-based aircraft. ( )