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Carregando... Horses Don't Fly: A Memoir of World War Ide Frederick Libby
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This book's name is a bit misleading. It's actually a memoir of Libby's years growing up on the American Western frontier in the 1890's through the end of World War I. During the first half of the book he tells anecdotes about growing up and starting out as an adult. He injects a lot of humor into the stories which I enjoyed. My favorite story involved him at about age 5 wearing his very best Sunday clothes, a deer, and a lasso, minutes before his father was ready to leave for church. When World War I broke out, Libby was in Canada where he joined the Canadian army. After a period of driving trucks, (although he had never driven one before joining the army) he transferred to the air corp as a gunner and later as a pilot. The officer who interviewed him for the position OK'd the move after finding out that Libby rode horses. This made no sense to Libby since "horses don't fly" which provided the name of this book. Libby (or his stepdaughter after his death) spends a few pages telling about the rest of his life. Apparently he wrote the manuscript and the family found it stuck in a drawer after he died. I liked the first half of this book better because I enjoyed Libby's sense of humor and his stories of the war (naturally)weren't as humorous. I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in frontier life or World War I. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
From breaking wild horses in Colorado to fighting the Red Baron's squadrons in the skies over France, here in his own words is the true story of a forgotten American hero: the cowboy who became our first ace and the first pilot to fly the American colors over enemy lines. Growing up on a ranch in Sterling, Colorado, Frederick Libby mastered the cowboy arts of roping, punching cattle, and taming horses. As a young man he exercised his skills in the mountains and on the ranges of Arizona and New Mexico as well as the Colorado prairie. When World War I broke out, he found himself in Calgary, Alberta, and joined the Canadian army. In France, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as an "observer," the gunner in a two-person biplane. Libby shot down an enemy plane on his first day in battle over the Somme, which was also the first day he flew in a plane or fired a machine gun. He went on to become a pilot. He fought against the legendary German aces Oswald Boelcke and Manfred von Richthofen, and became the first American to down five enemy planes. He won the Military Cross for conspicuous gallantry in action. Libby's memoir of his cowboy days in the last years of the Old West evokes a real-life Cormac McCarthy novel. His description of World War I combines a rattling good account of the air war over France with captivating and sometimes poignant depictions of wartime London, the sorrow for friends lost in combat, and the courage and camaraderie of the Royal Flying Corps. Told in charming, straightforward vernacular, Horses Don't Fly is an unforgettable piece of Americana. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Make no mistake, the WWI Air War was tough and the author talks about coming home to empty chairs round empty tables after some missions where there were few survivors. So far my favorite flying memoir from WWI. I'd love to see this one on the Chief of Staff of the Air Force's reading list. ( )