Originally Posted by
Dukeface88
Another book from the American side I read was John Lundstrom's First Team, which covers the same time period. Stylistically, it's the other way around, being quite dense (I mean that in a good way - well, mostly). It's also more focused on the aviation side, going into very specific detail about individual dogfights, aerial tactics and carrier operations. There were a lot of accidents, of all types - mechanical failure, pilot error and friendly fire. But what really hit home for me were the mini-biographies he gave for many of the dead pilots - just a couple of sentences usually, but they really emphasized that the men were not just nameless, faceless statistics.