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Liked It “This is one of the best books I've read in a long time. The book reads like fiction but hardly is. The author traces the 'life' of the pentagon, and key pentagon personnel and government officials from World War II through to the early part of the 21st century. This should be required reading for...” see full review » see other reviews » |
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“Convincing.”
Jaijet J wrote this review Tuesday, July 28 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“This is one of the best books I've read in a long time. The book reads like fiction but hardly is. The author traces the 'life' of the pentagon, and key pentagon personnel and government officials from World War II through to the early part of the 21st century. This should be required reading for every American citizen.”
Jon wrote this review Sunday, April 26 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“The first half of this book is far superior to the second half, which I believes spends too much time on the author's personal history (his father was a top military intelligence officer in the Cold War). The first half is an extremely well researched and reasoned argument that the building of a permanent military bureaucracy (as manifested in the Pentagon itself) and the escalation of total war against the civilians of Japan and Germany (culminating in the atom bomb) transformed the US during World War 2 into a country that would have been unrecognizable to the Founding Fathers or for that matter the people of the 1920s. An excellent refutation of all the tired cliches about the absolute necessity for the atom bomb, the global threat posed by Communism after World War 2 and a painfully necessary examination of horrific American and British excesses in the aerial bombing campaigns against Germany and Japan. ”
Steve wrote this review Friday, November 30 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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