In article , Cub Driver wrote:

I was amazed that the author uses the term Flyboys throughout the
book, or at least throughout the first chapter. I'd assumed it was
just a cute title, but no: "Flyboys were over Chici Jima" etc.

That was only one of the things I found irritating and cute about the
book. Overall it struck me as overblown and posturing. Others
may have a different opinion. There were some passages where
I though "this guy should have had someone that knows something
about WWII military aviation read this," though I'm not going to
reread it to give citations. The good part was it was dirt cheap.
The "amazing revelations" weren't. I thought it was a trifle disingenuous
(if that's how you spell it...) to hype it as having something to do with
the first President Bush. It had almost as much to do with the Wright
Brothers.

However, it's a rare aviation book that isn't worth reading at all,
and this one was no exception. My advice is to get it from the
library and use the savings to buy a couple used copies of _Fate
Is The Hunter_ to give to friends for Christmas!

Happy anniverary of flight to everyone out there. Looks like the
weather in Minnesota won't encourage me to get up today.
Damn it.

Mike Beede