Black Thursday: The Story of the Schweinfurt Raid by Martin CaidinMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
I used $0.99 worth of free Amazon credits toward Great on Kindle eBooks to 'purchase' this book. This is another book from www.digitalhistorybooks.com, of which I have read Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea by Daniel V. Gallery.
This book was much drier and felt more like a laundry list at times. There is certainly a story being told, but it is easy to get lost in the statistics and raw facts that are disgorged in quick succession. There is one chapter in particular where the majority of the chapter is a list of planes that are destroyed or damaged by five planes in a span of twenty or so minutes. Perhaps this is something some people enjoy reading about, but I did not.
I appreciated that Caidin portrays this failure in a way that respects airmen on both sides. I especially enjoyed the story about the American airmen's reaction to the poster with "Who's afraid of the big bad wulfe?" Another entertaining portion was the story of the airman who makes his way back to England after bailing out in Germany.
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