One Damned Island After Another: The Saga of the Seventh by Clive HowardMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
I 'purchased' this eBook using Amazon credits for Great Reads books.
This is perhaps the fourth of the www.digitalhistorybooks.com books I have read and the one I liked the least. I'm not 100% sure that it's not the lack of respect for the 'enemy' that made me dislike this one, but this book read to me like just a long list of the various accomplishments of the Seventh Air Force. There were some occasional interesting stories that delved a little deeper than who shot how many planes, but not really enough to weave a narrative.
I wonder if I would be more or less bothered by the use of the terms 'Jap' and 'Nip' if I weren't Japanese. This isn't the only way that the authors show zero regard for the Japanese soldiers they're fighting, very unlike Black Thursday by Martin Caidin, which showed respect for German airmen as well as the Americans. Perhaps because Germans and Americans have race in common, so it was more acceptable to treat Japanese as less than human?
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