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Summary: A totally different view of the bomb
Review: I read this book with my mind set on it being another negative view of America's role in WW2.
I was surprised and captivated with the book, read it twice.
Colonel Paul Tibbets opened my eyes to a totally different view of the use of the Atomic Bomb in WW2. He is a facinating person who has an amazing amount of wisdom on his career and life in general. Bob Greene did a wonderful job of introducing Colonel Tibbets to the reader. This book is tough to put down and will make you think.
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Summary: Wide of Circle Error Probable (CEP) for Tibbets-A True Hero
Review: What a disappointment! The author, Bob Greene, tries to turn a newspaper column about Paul Tibbets into a book with abysmal results. Greene father lived his later years in Columbus which happens to be the community where Paul Tibbets has spent his later years. Green's father passes away and Greene spends the first half of the book trying to link that deep sadness with Paul. Greene interviews Tibbets several times in a bar and I get so tired of hearing about this elderly man sitting in the bar I'm ready to scream. Greene's writing technique is to drive a thought by you a few times and let you have a little bit of it each time. I hate it in a discussion and find it even more annoying in text. Greene had a wonderful opportunity to develop a detailed composition about a true American hero and blew it. Some of the questions he asked Tibbets would have been more appropriate for a grade school essay. Asking Tibbets if he was afraid of anything and what it was, seems to be one step removed from, "What's your favorite color." Save your money...THIS BOOK DOESN'T DO JUSTICE TO TIBBETS WHO IS A TRUE AMERICAN HERO!
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Summary: LUSCIOUS!
Review: So many people have written so many positive reviews of this book that there is little that I can add to the discussion. ...except to suggest...(1) Don't bother to uncap your highlighter. This book is so poignant that its significant passages will sear themselves into your memory, and (2) Leave your favorite bookmark on your desk. This book is so engrossing that you will read it all in one 3 or 4 hour sitting: you won't be able to put it down. This is not a biography, nor is it a war story. It is something much richer. Through the characters of Paul Tibbets, other WWII celebrated heroes, and his father (an ordinary G.I.), Bob Greene explores one generation's commitment to duty, honor, country, and stoic acceptance of hard work as fundamental values. Unfortunately, in the final analysis, Mr. Greene is forced to contrast the WWII generation's values with those of our own time, which do not compare well. Read this book. Shed a few tears. Know how much you owe to those who served before us. Think about the values that make a strong society.
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Summary: A wonderful and moving experience.
Review: This was a wonderful and insightful book, both about Gen. Paul Tibbets and about the relationship between the generation that fought and won WWII and those born during the baby boom generation after. Bob Greene speaks for so many of us born in more recent years regarding our relationship with our fathers and the lack of open and easy communication between males of different generations. Parenthetically, as a Japanese-American whose relatives fought and suffered dearly on both sides of the conflict, all I can say is thank God that Gen. Tibbets was an American.
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Summary: Have A Box of Tissues Handy
Review: This is absolutely one of the most moving books I have ever read. Having lost my own father 1 1/2 years ago, it touched me in a profound way, but it is also gripping from a patriotic standpoint. After reading it, I now have such a deep gratitude for Gen. Tibbets and others like him who helped win WWII, and I'm ashamed it took me this long to realize it. Thank you, Bob Greene; your insightful writing is beautiful.
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Summary: Duty : A Father, His Son, and the Man Who Won the War
Review: this book give great insight in to the generation that won the war. it's a book you just can't put down
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Summary: More answers than I knew I had questions for.
Review: Greene offers a rare look deep into the psyche of the whole WWII generation through the eyes of two men who experienced it close up and personal. The story of his father, and his extraordinary conversations with Tibbets, helped me to understand my dad, and mother, and all their friends. And it taught me a lot about how that generation shaped mine, the baby-boomers. Back in the fifties, as a small boy, I wondered about why the adults all cried when they played taps on memorial day. Now I understand. I'm glad I picked it up. I'll be giving one to my father, and to a few other close friends.
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Summary: Must read
Review: This should be required reading for all highschool and college students. It reveals a profound insight into our history. Objectors might not be here to object if the bomb had not been dropped. Can't wait for the movie.
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Summary: A "must read"
Review: After seeing Bob Greene discussing his book on BookNotes, I ordered it, expecting a good read, but nothing more. It turns out to be a fantastic read, however. Greene's efforts to understand his father through Paul Tibbets does not make his father any less inscrutable, but it does make us wonder if his father, and other men who went to war, lived those war years over and over again, but only in their own minds. It doesn't appear that Greene was genuinely close to either of his parents, often rushing through a dinner with his mother to meet Paul Tibbets. And he clearly was enamored with Tibbets. This book is about Duty, but whose duty? Greene's father's war year duty? Paul Tibbets duty? or Greene's own duty to understand his parent?
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Summary: As The Story Should Be Told
Review: This book describes the attitudes of the people of the United States and their sense of duty during WWII. The book describes some of the hardships of wartime and of fighting a war that was mostly in the trenches. I was a lad during WWII and I remember the emotions of the people of the United States. My father served in the Marines in the Pacific. This book has captured some of those emotions and tells the story of why the dropping of the atomic bomb was a necessary evil. WWII was not fought with the high tech equipment of today but fought with manpower in the trenches. A well told story of WWII and the people who fought the war.
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