Jack’s Books: Tales Both NATO and Nautical [Video]

When last we met up, you and I, in this little blog, I was saying how John Keegan’s “The American Civil War” was such a good overview of that era that you would ideally read it before you read anything else about the Civil War.

Same things goes for “Winged Victory: Army Air Forces in WWII” by Geoffrey Perret (1993). I probably delve into more books about WW2 aviation than any other single historical subject, and this blew me away for scope, detail and page-ripping readability. I should’ve known; I’d previously learned a lot from his books about MacArthur and Grant (the latter is probably the definitive biography). Professor Perret is a Brit who has contributed to and elevated American history as few others, and if you like aviation history, or want to add another brick in the wall of your WW2 smarts, get “Winged Victory”.

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