LeMay, Barrett Tillman
LeMay, Barrett Tillman
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LeMay
A Biography

Author: Barrett Tillman, General Wesley K. Clark

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 6 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Synopsis

Packed with breathtaking air battles and ground tactics, this new addition to the Great Generals Series features the controversial command and strategies of the former Air Force Chief of Staff.Curtis LeMay was a terrifying, complex, and brilliant general. In World War II, he ordered the firebombing of Tokyo and was in charge when atomic bombs were dropped on Japan. He was responsible for tens of thousands of civilian deaths, a fact he liked to celebrate by smoking Cuban cigars.But LeMay was also the man who single-handedly transformed the American Air Force from poorly trained and badly equipped pilots into one of the fiercest weapons of the war. Over the last decades, most US military missions were carried out entirely through use of the Air Force. This is LeMay’s legacy.

About Barrett Tillman

Barrett Tillman is a widely recognized expert on air warfare in World War II and the author of more than forty nonfiction and fiction books on military topics, including Whirlwind. His work has been cited in dozens of history books and has been used as course work by the US Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps. The former managing editor of The Hook, he is frequently seen in television documentaries in the United States and Europe. He has received numerous awards for history and literature, including the Admiral Arthur Radford Award.

About Tom Weiner

Tom Weiner, a dialogue director and voice artist best known for his roles in video games and television shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Transformers, is the winner of eight Earphones Awards and is an Audie Award finalist. He is a former member of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

About General Wesley K. Clark

General Wesley K. Clark served in the United States Army for thirty-four years and rose to the rank of four-star general as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. He is author of A Time to Lead, as well as the bestselling books Waging Modern War and Winning Modern Wars. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bear

Excellent overview of the man and his efforts... Concise, but accurate from what others who knew the man told me. A great title from the "Great Generals Series"!......more

Goodreads review by Richard

I first heard of Curtis Lemay when he was the vice-presidential running mate of George Wallace in 1968. He seemed to me then to be a pea brained conservative whose solution to everything was to bomb it into submission. They called him Bombs Away Lemay. That was certainly not General Lemay's finest h......more

Goodreads review by Patrick

Because I share basically no ideology with the characture of LeMay I have in my brain, I thought it might be fun to read a biography. While I still find little overlap, I was interested to learn more about him. As a book I found Tillman's work to be readable and accessible with a good amount of prima......more

Quotes

“A brilliant book! Barrett Tillman describes the true magnitude of LeMay’s achievements, while rendering the first posthumous biography of a complex, controversial figure. Objective and beautifully written…an absolute must for every aviation or military historian and for anyone interested in leadership.” Walter J. Boyne, author of Roaring Thunder and former director of the National Air and Space Museum

“Mr. Tillman finds much to admire in LeMay, a general who led his own bomber missions and was more familiar with flying equipment than his own men.”
New York Sun

“Thorough, balanced, and insightful, Barrett Tillman’s masterful biography of Curtis LeMay is a long-overdue and thought-provoking study, one certain to become a standard.” Dr. Richard P. Hallion, aviation historian and author of Taking Flight: Inventing the Aerial Age from Antiquity through the First World War

“Curtis E. LeMay…was far more complex than his detractors claim. Barrett Tillman, one of America’s top history writers, gives us an authentic feel for LeMay and for the way LeMay left his mark on the twentieth century.” Robert F. Dorr, author of Air Combat and columnist for the Air Force Times

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