Anne R. Keene
Författare till The Cloudbuster Nine: The Untold Story of Ted Williams and the Baseball Team That Helped Win World War II
Verk av Anne R. Keene
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Kön
- female
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Priser
Statistik
- Verk
- 1
- Medlemmar
- 63
- Popularitet
- #268,028
- Betyg
- 3.2
- Recensioner
- 3
- ISBN
- 4
Two examples are sufficient to illustrate how a reader will struggle to understand the author's purpose: in writing of Tom Hamilton, a key figure in creating the Navy's Chapel Hill preflight training, the author writes an overly-long biography, including specifics of an Army-Navy football game in which he participated. This was a little distracting, but she adds distraction on distraction by taking the story to a sportswriter--Eckie Eckersall--who wrote a prophetic line about Hamilton's later work, but in that aside, added another long paragraph about Eckersall's own football career: a very long distance from the chapter's subject.
Likewise, in a chapter entitled "Ted's Next Station," the author begins with the story of several baseball games in which Williams participated before his graduation from pre-flight training at Chapel Hill, then to his move to flight training in Indiana and Florida. Next, she moves the narrative to Johnny Pesky, a teammate and pre-flight classmate of Williams, and his failure to make it through flight training. She then returns to Chapel Hill to tell the story of survival training at Chapel Hill and how it preserved many of the students through the war, including in this section a long discussion of later President George H.W. Bush's experience at Chapel Hill and surviving being shot down. The penultimate section talked about military baseball's departure from America as all these trainees moved overseas to fight and ends with a long discussion of the Manhattan Project and the dropping of the first two atomic bombs to end the war. All in a chapter entitled "Ted's Next Station."
There is some interesting history here, but a reader will have to work hard to find it.… (mer)