Apache

Ich bin zwar Pazifist aber schon immer ein Fan von Kriegsmemoiren. Ich habe mich schon durch sämtliche Kriege und Abteilungen gelesen von Luftwaffe bis zur Marine. Hubschrauber-Piloten waren bislang noch nicht dabei. Umso gespannter war ich auf Ed Macys "Apache". Tja, Schade. Nach den überschwänglic......more

The book I read to research this post was Apache by Ed Macy which is an excellent book which I bought from a carboot sale. Whether you agree with the war in Afghanistan or not this book which is mostly about the rescue of a marine who was captured by the Taliban and had to be rescued from a huge com......more

Apache started a little slow and was a bit of an initial challenge to read the British armed forces terms as an American. The book really took off about 30 pages in and was hard to put down. The descriptions of the Apache helicopter and the battle situations were excellent. Recommended reading for a......more

Wow! Two level 5 books in a week. This non-fiction book not only provides an excellent description of the operation of Apache gunships in Afghanistan but also reads like a military techno-thriller in describing the rescue of a downed marine at Jugroom Fort. You don't get more exciting non-fiction th......more

Again, set politics and opinion of the war aside and read as an account of a combat pilot's time in Afghanistan, culminating in the unorthodox rescue mission of a fallen Royal Marine. The technical aspects of flying and of the AH-64 itself were well over my head but that just made me appreciate the s......more