I Could Never Be So Lucky Again
by James Doolittle, Carroll V. Glines
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Author: Carroll V. Glines, James DoolittleEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-04-24
ISBN: 0553584642
Number of pages: 560
Publisher: Bantam
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Book Review: Fascinating Reading
Summary: 5 Stars
A fascinating reading! One can read it as an autobiography, a history book or as an adventure story.
A short boy in Alaska chased by wild dogs and won fights at school not because of skills but aimless non-stop punching; a professional boxer representing UC Berkeley winning matches up and down the California coast to earn his college tuition; a pilot who carried a tool box at all time because at that time airplanes could just stop working anytime in the midair; a record setting stunt fighter pilot; an academic and scholar with a PHD from MIT in charge of R&D; a high pay corporate executive resigned from his job to lead a one-way suicide mission to bomb Tokyo; a general who led the largest air force command in WWII that bombed the daylight out of Germany .......
Can these be one person? If so, can anyone who achieved so much be humble enough to credit all his success as "luck"? The answer to both questions is yes and that is Mr. Doolittle.
Equally impressive is the humanity expressed in the matter-of-fact descriptions of numerous accidents of his fellow pilots, deaths and blow-up body parts in the war. Energy, optimism and sorrow intermingle in the writing like Beethoven's 3rd Symphony on plain English.
Throughout the book the tone is humorous and upbeat. Tragedies at war and in air races were mankind's heroic triumphs from the author's view, and Mr. Doolittle was in the middle of all these. He was not a sophisticated-strategic-thinker-pencil-pusher, but a genuine American hero.
If time allows, I recommend to get a few war-corresponding articles or current economy reporting from TIMEs and Newsweek and read them side-by-side with the book. Comparing the writing styles, hero and wimps, it will either turn your stomach or give you a good laugh, perhaps both.
Summary of I Could Never Be So Lucky Again
After Pearl Harbor, he led America?s flight to victoryGeneral Doolittle is a giant of the twentieth century. He did it all.
As a stunt pilot, he thrilled the world with his aerial acrobatics. As a scientist, he pioneered the development of modern aviation technology.
During World War II, he served his country as a fearless and innovative air warrior, organizing and leading the devastating raid against Japan immortalized in the film Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.
Now, for the first time, here is his life story ? modest, revealing, and candid as only Doolittle himself can tell it.
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