Posted on: 2005-06-24 12:46:37
Forget The Right Stuff. In War for the Hell of It, Ed Cobleigh pierces that popular image and takes us inside the helmet of a USAF fighter pilot, circa 1969.
This arresting, emotional account of one pilot's personal war is much more than airspeed and avionics, operations and ordnance. This is a book about warriors; the author just happens to fight his war from the cockpit of an F-4 Phantom II fighter-bomber.
Cobleigh's account is unsentimental and unsparing. Yet, for all his hard-won cynicism, Cobleigh refuses to surrender his humanity, or his patriotism.
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