[WWI] What's your favorite OT memoir?

[Tom Mason]

Matt,
A flat-out creation in his book is that when Frank Luke jr. was shot down he 
shot 11 Germans with his pistol before being shot. Another one is that Ernst 
Udet shot himself with his pearl handled luger because he was blamed for the 
failure of the Battle of Britain. Also he states that the Germans padded 
there pilots scores. I also think his remarks on the personalities of some 
of the pilots are a bit off.
A book to avoid is "Iron Men with Wooden Wings by Cameron. Poorly written 
and filled a lot inaccuracies, such as when Richthofen was shot down he made 
a perfect landing as he died.

T.O.M.
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From: "Matt Kessler" <mkessler1 at cinci.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: [WWI] What's your favorite OT memoir?


> Wow!  Thanks for all the replies!  Looks like I've got a slew of good 
> books
> to go hunting for!  Thanks much!
>
> I am surprised to see Longstreet's Canvas Falcons show up though.  I've 
> got
> that book, and it always felt sort of "pulpy".  That being said, I've 
> tried
> several times to find something he says that is a flat-out creation, and I
> can't.  Well, other than the Red Baron being downed in an Albatros.
>
> To Ernest Thomas:
> Amazingly enough, I've got Graves' book on the shelf here, and I've read
> Trumbo.  Trumbo's work was very, very good.  Definitely not a book for
> someone looking for something uplifting, but it does cast a certain
> perspective on the absurdity of war.
>
> To Michael Kendix:
> I'll have to look up Sassoon's book.  I was relatively unfamiliar with him
> until I saw the movie "Behind the Lines" (which also had an alternate 
> title
> which I can't remember), which I am guessing was a fictionalized account 
> of
> Sassoon's time in the shell-shock ward during his protest against the war.
> If you haven't seen it, I thought it was a very powerful film, with some
> very vivid, if disturbing, images.  Anyway, it got me looking and led me 
> to
> some of Sassoon's poems.
>
> Thanks again,
> Matt
>
>