Recalling World War II

Recalling World War 11: One Personal Experience, by Edward P. Perry, is not your typical W W II reminiscence. Minus all the rah-rah rhetoric and high-flown patriotic mumbo-jumbo, it presents perhaps a truer picture of the average GI's daily existence than we typically see. Perry became an Air Corps navigator after experiencing the boredom and ignominy of infantry training. Not particularly interested in glory, he wanted a change from the drudgery and mud and dirt he had experienced in army life thus far. But after the grinding exhaustion of flight school, he quickly found himself involved in the hell of flying missions, eventually ending up in a POW camp. Detailed in Perry's letters home and his own diary, he recounts here all the anxieties and fears experienced by countless young men fighting for their lives in a conflict many did not understand. A compelling book full of insight and humor, Recalling World War II will leave many a reader pondering the machinations of the American mili