On 2/25/2016 4:51 AM, Casey wrote:
I just ran across a biography by Joe Volmar, "I Learned to Fly For
Hitler".
http://www.abebooks.com/978096713890...0967138906/plp
Has anyone read it, and how many stars?
An excellent, and well-written, book for anyone with the slightest interest in
either history in general or gliding/soaring in particular. As with all
"field-of-battle" memoirs (read the book!), it leaves all insightful readers
with a powerful sense of how huge a factor in survival is fortune. In Volmar's
case, "simply" escaping the (front lines, no less!) meat-grinder of the
Russian front in 1945 with his life is perhaps the most obvious example.
Bob W.