I highly recommend the book, if you are an aviation enthusiast as I am, it is one of the best.
Also...after reading it, I understood wholly why Eddie Rickenbacker was an American Hero to generations.
He was a stud.
It’s not so much aviation, which I do think is great, but the people who played such a big part in history.
Rickenbacker did something unheard of and unbelievable at that time. It was bigger than the first moon landing back then. Many people considered it a suicide run. That makes him interesting.
He deserved the credit he got.
Doolittle led a ballsy mission that was considered a suicide mission by the men who flew it and the people who sent them. His accomplishments before the war could have kept him stateside or behind a desk but he gladly commanded the raid.
That makes him interesting.
My fascination with the PEOPLE of history led me to read up on George Patton.
I found out his father had a strange idea about education. A father should read the classics to a child from birth until the child was older than normal age to start school. I think that explains Pattons belief in reincarnation. The vivid imagination of a bright child could easily convince the child he had actually LIVED those lives.
When Patton did start school he could recite entire chapters of the classic literature but couldn’t read a lick.
That also explains his life long problems with spelling.
The people behind the public personas are just so fascinating. I can’t help myself.