William E. Burrows
Auteur de This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age (Modern Library Paperbacks)
A propos de l'auteur
William E. Burrows is the author of Deep Black: Space Espionage and National Security, and is a former reporter for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He is the founder and director of New York University's graduate Science and Environmental Reporting Program, and afficher plus lives with his wife in Connecticut afficher moins
Œuvres de William E. Burrows
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- Date de naissance
- 1937-03-27
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Professions
- journalist
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- Œuvres
- 14
- Membres
- 838
- Popularité
- #30,496
- Évaluation
- 3.8
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 34
It is always interesting to note the genuine respect arial enemies had for each other. Frequently their relations were starkly different from the infantry in the trenches.
"The tendancy to compensate for ones deficiencies by sinking them in to the glorious achievements of more furtunate mortals may be an ever-present feature of social life." - Sidney Hook
This book was published in 1969. Significant perhaps because of the social distain to heroes and war during the Vietnam conflict that was taking place at the time. However, there have been anti war movements constantly during the last 100 years and they do not always effect all history or literature publshed in their time periods but certainly may. In this case the back cover talkes about how the German war department looked for someone they could glorify to keep up moral with the war effort going poorly and they selected Richtofen. It is possible to overglorify war or those that do heroic things during war. It is highly possible that the Baron would not have had the legendary status he has retained for so long had he not died during the conflict and been remembered as a martyr.
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