'Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds' review Daily Camera
13.06.10
A newly-released tall tale about the life of an ace fighter pilot has more detail about sky maneuvers, victory rolls and falling fire in the sky than any movie will ever give a viewer.
But what makes such a history worth reading is the way the late Ace Fighter Pilot Robin Olds approached World War II and Vietnam with passion and how that passion grew.
By side 72 of "Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds," the first real bomb drops on the reader as Olds details the days he was on a three-day antiquated from the war to stroll London. Inspired by real knight armor in a storefront, he went into a place called the Old Antique Shoppe. There, the proprietress made tea for him with the sounds of regular bombings heard in the distance. The man chatted with Olds about history of that armor for two hours. Upon his interest the next morning, having been invited back to the shop for more tea, and with intent to start payments to buy the historic armor, he was met by a uncomfortable of devastation. The whole city block on which the shop was located was gone, devastated by a bomb. With no survivors.
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