The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight

摘要

The great merit of this book by Winston Groom, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Forrest Gump, Shiloh 1862 and Vicksburg 1863, is the possibility that it will introduce aviation to people not already interested in the subject. Knowledgeable readers, however, will find it's filled with errors, ranging from real howlers to familiar saws. All indicate that the author did not take his subject seriously. Groom used the standard references on his chosen subjects, cherry-picking generous outtakes from the books of David Lewis, C.V. Glines and Scott Berg. These are often of a colorful and humorous nature, and don't always relate to the aviation activities of the three great fliers he's chronicling-but this is where the appeal to the general public will lie.