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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Jackal1 on November 12, 2007, 04:28:37 AM
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I have never read the book, but caught the documentary by the same name on the boob tube.
Very interesting.
If you haven`t seen it , I recommend it highly.
It goes into a lot of the mental/nerve state these guys lived under and how it played out in their minds.
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I don't know if it's the same one ..but I read the book when I was a kid.
Is the documentary about a WW1 pilot?
The thing that really struck me about the book was because it was in the form of a diary, and then it just abruptly ended.
I wish I still had it.
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Yes, it was about Grider in WWI from his diary as written by his wingman.
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I caught the last half of it. Very interesting, raw look at the life of a WWI aviator.
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Wow, that takes me back! I read that when I was a kid in highschool. The book belonged to my dad (wonder if he still has it?). I didn't know someone had turned it into a film. It inspired me to write a similar story for the book, "Echoes: An Anthology of Warbirds Fiction" (published back when I was flying Warbirds, and before AH). It tells the story of a German pilot during the battle for France, in the form of diary entries written to the pilot's son. I posted the fictional diary entries during a multi-day scenario of the Battle of France, one entry each day. They were actually accounts of my own missions during the scenario, but I posted them without any explanation. The best compliment I ever got was when someone posted a comment in the thread, which read, "Wow, it's really amazing to read an actual account of the battle. What ever happened to this pilot?"
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Originally posted by Sabre
Wow, that takes me back! I read that when I was a kid in highschool. The book belonged to my dad (wonder if he still has it?). I didn't know someone had turned it into a film. It inspired me to write a similar story for the book, "Echoes: An Anthology of Warbirds Fiction" (published back when I was flying Warbirds, and before AH). It tells the story of a German pilot during the battle for France, in the form of diary entries written to the pilot's son. I posted the fictional diary entries during a multi-day scenario of the Battle of France, one entry each day. They were actually accounts of my own missions during the scenario, but I posted them without any explanation. The best compliment I ever got was when someone posted a comment in the thread, which read, "Wow, it's really amazing to read an actual account of the battle. What ever happened to this pilot?"
I still have a copy of your "Echoes" book in my library. I'll have to dig it up and check out your diary story again.