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1 author picked Twelve O'Clock High as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book came out a few years after World War II ended and became a movie and later a TV series.
I started watching the TV series when I was quite young, and in that impressionable time I was sure when I grew up I’d fly B-17s for General Savage and the 918th Bomb Group. This despite the fact that I was well aware of modern jet bombers like the B-52!
The book itself taught me a lot about what it’s like to command a bomb group during an air war. It contains one of the most detailed and exquisitely…
From Tom's list on The best books of air war stories that put you in the cockpit.
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