posted 10-15- 05:12 PM               

Hi guys I just wrote this review for amazon.com trying out for the $50 first review gift certificate. And thought some people here might like to read it too. Its a great book if you can find it.

I would just post a link to it but i guess they are reviewed before posting.

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The courage of the early morning is the story of Billy bishop, the allieds leading air ace of ww1 with 72 kills, only 8 short of the red baron.

The book is written by his son as the result of a promise made to his father before he passed away. And its suprisingly unbiased.

William Bishop tells the story of his fathers upbrining touching on everything that might have attibuted to his great performance during ww1, but not shying away from his faults. He did very poorly during military school almost being thrown out and also during flight training almost being sent back for a second run, until his first kill.

It's a great account of a Canadian Ace and a great man, it flows from his childhood, on through the war, and countiuing after the war until his death. You don't come out just knowing the pilot but the man behind the pilot.

The pilot accounts tell in detail how he attained his kills, players of ww1 and even ww2 sims would be wise to learn and emulate his skills outlined in these pages. They are already helping me in my sims. Remarkably he has similar tactics as Erich Hartmann. Even though decades seperate them they found the same tactics that brought them high scores and kept them alive to live on after their respective wars.

The book also contains a list of victories including:

Date, Time, Hight, Location, and aircraft.

And also included is a index.

The only thing I would like to see would have been some pictures. It does however include some small maps of the areas he was stationed at.