Customer Review: This is a really well written, easy to read, book about the daylight bombing campaign against the Third Reich. In a relatively condensed book, Gerald Astor manages to trace the story of the Eighth Airforce's campaign from the abortive 6 plane raid on the Dutch Coast through VE Day. He does this, as... more info
Customer Review: this book is a precursor of the present political landscapes of burma and india. most specifically burma. that the present bandits landlords of the countries mountain lands are dominated by karens tribal rebels who actually support their existence with poppy production and traffics which actually... more info
Customer Review: This is a readable and graphic history, mostly from the vantage point of the common soldier. Politics in the larger sense are frequently neglected. A glaring example of this neglect is the brief and flippant coverage of President Harry Truman's actual order to desegregate the US Armed Forces, the... more info
Customer Review: Gerald Astor's book on Okinawa is, again, one of the better oral histories I have read on WWII. He delicately weaves the stories as told by the servicemen with his own narratives. What works with this is a great "you are there" feel to the book. The soldiers give harrowing accounts of the fighting... more info
Customer Review: "The dead man, nameless to us, was one of the thousands of callow replacements...who were fed into the maws of the Huertgen and became dead meat almost immediately". This quote, from medic Paul Treatman (p. 198), aptly sums up what was possibly the most brutal and costly fight waged by the US Army... more info
Customer Review: I agree with the other reviewer that this book was not well edited. In the photo section of the book, there are two glaring errors in the photo captions. There is a photograph of two Curtiss SB2C Helldivers in flight, but they are described in the caption as [Grumman] TBF Avengers. There is also a... more info
Customer Review: Interesting supplement to other works on the Battle of the Bulge. The book does not try to explain the flow of the battle, but rather presents the viewpoint of the individual soldiers involved. It captures the wide range of emotions of the participants during and after battle, and presents war in... more info
Customer Review: You will be at the front lines listening to the truth of a necessary war. You will understand how a war is won by which set of generals are the least incompetant. Our generals were incompetant, but our soldiers courageous and that won the war. Reading this is vital, and I have purchased all the... more info
Customer Review: If it weren't for the interviews with Congressional Medal of Honor nominee and Hellcat Ace Commander Alexander Vraciu this book would be a major debacle. Astor may get raves for "Terrible Terry Allen" from many but he clearly has no grasp whatsoever on aviation. There are tons of errors in this... more info
Customer Review: Gerald Astor's "Terrible Terry Allen" is a good but uneven treatment of one of the most enigmatic American commanders of World War II. Because Terry Allen never rose higher than a division commander, in one way it is unusual that a biography was written about him; but after reading this book, you'll... more info
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