[VOA]

Robert Coram, whose biography, Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed
the Art of War ( Little Brown ), will appear in November.

I've not read that book yet.

BUT, I have read Robert Corum's book on Col. Bud Day.
Couldn't put it down.
The portions dealing with The Hanoi Hilton (and co-prisoner
John McCain) are riveting.
Should be required reading for high school and university students.

It's titled "American Patriot".

[george76]

The archives have lots of good reads.

[Colorado Cowgirl]

You have got to read his book, by Robert Coram. It will give a warm feeling.

The coming assault on Baghdad already has its first hero: Colonel John Boyd, a foul-mouthed, insubordinate fighter pilot who has been in his grave at Arlington National Cemetery for almost five years.

When Iraq’s tyrant is brought down, that inevitable victory will be Boyd’s doing. You won’t hear Boyd’s name being cited in Rose Garden speeches, however. Nor will the Pentagon be authorising any posthumous decorations for the man who, through 30 years of bureaucratic guerilla warfare, transformed America’s military.

Even though he gave them many of the tools that made Operation Desert Storm such a sweeping success in 1991, the brass continued to hate Boyd with such a passion that, as a final sign of contempt, they sent only a single general as their official representative at his funeral.