From: "Michael Starke"

I'd be interested in other opinions of "Flyboys" as I was somewhat
disappointed in sub-textural message of moral relativism that permeates
the book.

I was disappointed in Bradley's book. I ordered it based on a presentation I
saw him make on C-SPAN. It's an important subject that deserves and
intelligent, learned and thoughtful examination by someone with decent writing
skills. A much better book on the general subject, although painted in broad
detail and not down to the flight crew level, is:
"Power Across the Pacific: A Diplomatic History of American Relations With
Japan"
by William R. Nester, New York University, 1996. Since Bradley brings up the
subject of US treatment of the Indians, it is interesting that Nester is both
an expert on Japan (having written the two-volumes of "The Foundation of
Japanese Power" and other works on Japan) and on Indian-European/American
warfare, having written the very good "The First Global War : Britain, France,
and the Fate of North America, 1756-1775," and "The Arikara War: The First
Plains Indian War, 1823," among many other solid works.






The Japanese said the Geneva Convention rules did not apply to
Americans because they indiscriminately bombed civilians in
their raids on Japan.

If I'm not mistaken, did not the Japanese enthusiastically bomb Chinese
civilian population centers?




Chris Mark