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...."With men the normal state of nature is not peace but war".... Immanuel Kant

James Bradley in his book unveils the secret stories of eight flyboys executed far out in the vast pacific in WWII
Let me be honest, friends....
I wasn't the least prepared for what I was up to reading "Flyboys: A True Story of Courage"; I mean I was expecting somewhat like adventure and Heroismus a la Hollywood, with simple black and white, the good guys against the bad ones.....
Instead I've become crushing Realität and thoroughly researched details depicting a gruesome war!!!
In this war you have a big and diffuse grey zone, you cannot discern between the good and bad guys. So, yes, Stephen King in "the shinning", you know the famous caretaker in the hotel, ....This inhuman place makes human monster....
This is exactly what wars gives birth to, human monsters!!!!

And so you have here the invasion from China by the japs, the fire inferno over Germany and Japan with hundred of thousands casualties,
the B-29 flying Superfortresses with their deathly Napalm incendiary bombs!!!
Even the atomic bombing at Nagasaki and Hiroshima....

But let me say it clearly, what gets you isn't so much this descriptions, although bad as they are...
Rather, and here it comes:
Marve Mershon
Dick Woelhof
Grady York
Floyd Hall
Glenn Fraizer...
All of them young flyboys!!!
(.....At that time we were all just kids......)

Bradley managed it to show us the faces and gives light to their stories--young people--
So reading about their fates, and what happened to them will punch you for good in the bowels!!!
I don't want to spoil, so you must read it for yourselves....

The book itself is very good written, and with lots of photos and background information. So you will learn a lot about the Mentalität and customs of both the Japaner and the Americans, and also how the world at that time could become so crazy.

Let me also say that it isn't an easy reading....
So be watchful and prepare yourself for this special treat by Bradley and his flyboys!!!!
If I were you, I would tighten up the buckle and enjoy the ride, but look out for turbulences....

And of course I will and must give it five stars, without discussion!!!