Showing posts with label Generals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Generals. Show all posts

Sunday, January 25, 2009

What I have been reading lately #13

Lemay by Barrett Tillman is part of the Great Generals Series.  I am about half-way through, which takes us to 1949 and the Berlin Airlift.  So far LeMay has helped perfect daylight bombing of Nazi-occupied Europe and night-time incendiary raids against Japan.  Still to come - LeMay's advocacy of nuclear weapons use against north Vietnam and his vice-presidential bid as George Wallace's running mate in 1968.

"Hockey ought to be sternly forbidden, as it is not only annoying but dangerous." Halifax Morning Sun, quoted in Michael McKinley's Hockey - A People's History