Publication: Air Power History Publication Date: 22-SEP-07 Delivery: Immediate Online Access Author: Ashcroft, Bruce
Article Excerpt Boys' Books, Boys' Dreams and the Mystique of Flight. By Fred Erisman. Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2006. Photographs. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xx, 346. $29.95 ISBN: 0-87565-330-8
I've been an aviation historian for twenty years and, while there are a number of books I have truly enjoyed, there have been only a handful that I wish I had written--Joseph Corn's Winged Gospel and Robert Wohl's A Passion for Wings, are examples. I just added Boys' Books, Boys' Dreams to the list. Authors often specialize in the technical details of aviation and/or aerial warfare. And that's...
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