dear, engineers iam a student of mechanical engineering craft practice.i have never read any of your book but when iwent throuh the that you have on the list ijust like the books.

Without a doubt one of the worst books I have ever read. The author has little knowledge of the subject. Oh, he may have some knowledge regarding the missions flown by B-24s (The Jacket states that he flew as a gunner in the WWII). When it comes to the operations of airborne units he knows so litte and writes so poorly that his lack of knowledge jumps out at you. If any WWII members of the 82nd Airborne get hold of this "work" the author better hide.
He writes about two individuals ,Leo, a member of the air corps, and, Jack, a member of the 504th. Both join the service and work their way though WWII. Leo has a buddy who believes the war is only the work of the world's powerful to make lots of money and oppress the "little" people. Jack finds himself in a platoon of "heros" that end up being led by an enlisted man ,Hamid, who is convinced that all officers are bad and leading everyone astray. He has such a grasp of tactics he decides what his group sould do - not what the orders say. (If the officer is from West Point that is really bad - the guy is a nut or dumb or both.) This is true of line as well as staff officers including the Supreme Commander of Allied Armies, old DDE himself. They blame the messed up drop in Normandy on the high command, not on the Germans and the poor navigation of the airforce. They give no credit to Slim Jim for getting them out of the mess.
Every time they get into combat they seem to be on their own and whenever possible they knock on a door to get directions from the locals. My isn't that smart? (Not being a member of the 82nd serving later in an aiborne division I knew several members of the 82nd who made the Normandy drop, and by the way we were all enlisted.)
Their leader Hamid, always keeps his "guys" back so they will not take the first fire, always getting behind other troops and generaly not doing what they have been told to do. Because he hates officers so much Hamid constantly disobeys. He keeps (by now he is a sergeant)his men in a field to bury a friend,failing to follow a direct order. Guess what? Half of the men get killed or wounded because of his judgement. To the author this is a hero - to those of us that have Airborne backgrounds this is an insult.
If we overlook the author's treatment of brave men who served in the 82nd Airborne we can not overlook his inability to use the english language. Just about every meal(and there are a lot) Jack or Leo have away from the miltary is "tasty". Among the lucky charms the flight crews carried were "rabbit tails" (?). When some one snickered he "sniggered". Artillery was never used it was always "cannons" and the Army had 6 inch guns. It goes on and on. When ten words would surfice fifty had to be used, and just to keep things interesting the author throws in external infomation (i.e. Ultra) that has lilltle to do with the story.
Mismanagement of the facts is also a constant in this book. A navy Captain is in command of a distroyer - and of course he is "instructed" by enlisted men when he does not agree with their way of doing things. Although there is a bombadier on the aircraft Leo the nose gunner "toggles" the bombs. Paratroppers sit in their seats with both their packs and their parachutes on their back, and they hook up their parachute "straps" not the static line. Oh and yeah, the Jumpmaster goes last out the door, not first as required. I guess that's because he is an officer and only enlisted men can lead.
To cap it all off Hamid makes Captain, when he should have been put in chains, of course now we have an officer the author likes. All get home after the war.
All the girls are beautiful, all the officers are dumb or mean,only the enlisted men have any sense, and the 82nd Airborne was at Bastone. I bet the 101 would be interested in that that.
As a reader not a writer I knew that the writing in this book was not something I would burden myself with.However the publication I was reading (Flying Eightball Productions (1994), 7E Union Street, Nanticoke, PA 18634) had several typos and mispellings in the first few pages (McCarthur for McArthur and onlyj or only) I became interested and read the whole thing. Turns out in this hardback edition there were 82 typos and misspellings in 437 pages - an average of one every 5.33 pages. Tells me something about the author who would allow someting this sloppy to be printed and than allow his name to be attached to it. Of course, and I hope, that the editions being handled through Amazon do not repeat these errors, I am not going to buy one and take the chance.
I would like to have a copy of the 1994 Flying Eightball Productions edition for my collection of books - it would be a wonderful example how not to write a book for my grandchildren.