Brendan’s Alternate Tagline for Tuskegee Airmen:
I wouldn’t want to mess with them.
Quick synopsis:
The true story of the Tuskegee Airmen in World War II.
Fact for Non-History People:
The airmen won over 850 medals.
Fact for History Nerds:
150 Tuskegee Airmen lost their lives in World War II.
My Take on Tuskegee Airmen:
Samuel de Korte’s Tuskegee Airmen is an excellent example of an author giving the reader exactly what they need to understand the subject. The book looks at the entire timeline of the Tuskegee airmen from right before World War II to right after.
The narrative is short (less than 200 pages) and de Korte does not spend a tremendous amount of time on any one date or subject. This is in between a purely scholarly work and a work of narrative non-fiction. For example, there are multiple sections which start out reading like a military debrief. The thing keeping the reader from zoning out is that de Korte litters the book with passages taken directly from the airmen themselves. These passages give the reader a bit more emotional involvement then a scholarly work which would just be names and dates.
Overall, I enjoyed the book and felt it gave a great rundown of the Tuskegee airmen’s history.
(This book was provided as a review copy by the author.)
Verdict:
An informative and short read. Buy it here!
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