BOOK REVIEW: He understood the nature of war - Washington Times
LEMAY: THE LIFE AND WARS
OF GENERAL CURTIS LEMAY
By Warren Kozak
Regnery, $27.95, 354 pages
Reviewed by Martin Sieff
Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay does not lack popular attention, but he can never be discussed too much. Gen. LeMay, the architect of the crucially successful U.S. Army Air Force strategic bombing offensives over both Germany and Japan during World War II and the true creator of the U.S. Air Force's Strategic Air Command, has been popularized -- one should more actually say bowdlerized -- by the caricatures of Gen. Buck Turgidson played by George C. Scott in "Dr Strangelove" and by Kevin Conway playing Gen. LeMay himself in "Thirteen Days," a much simplified and highly colored movie dramatization of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. On the other hand, he has also been the subject of insightful and deeply respectful study by Victor Davis Hanson, whose father served under him in the USAF's XXI Bomber Command.
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