Silver Wings Santiago Blue

By Janet Dailey

Book Overview

Travel back in time to the exhilarating story of the first WASPS, the Woman Airforce Service Pilots, who risked their lives, their ambitions, and their dreams to help the war effort during World War... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B001RB8R7O
• ISBN13: 9780671504052
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Poseidon Press
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great for women's history classes

This book was released in the 1980's, not long after the record of women Wasp's was released in the 1970's. Actually there isn't much out there about these amazing women pilots even in 2007. There is a web-site that is slowly getting underway for women re-enactors of WWII. My question would be who would want to reenact what these women did? They were given an assortment of beat-up planes to haul targets for new male recruits to shoot at. They also transported new planes to the airfields, including the new type of plane-the jet. By the end of the war there were 38 female casualties whose bodies were shipped home at their families expense. No military honors, no mention at all. Certainly no grateful nation since the records were sealed until the women's lib movement of the '70's forced them open. Another reviewer complained that the book was dry, then complained that there were not enough descriptions of planes. I personally can't imagine anything drier than descriptions of planes. No romance, not true - although certainly not much in the way of sex scenes which the other reviewer lamented. Most romances in the 1980's were not explicit and today many are still not. She also complained that there was not enough description of clothes. I didn't find that to be true and their uniforms were certainly described in detail. If newly published today, this would certainly be more like a "relationship" novel since the relationships between these women were explored - not unlike the prolific novels of Debbie Macomber. When my college class discusses WWII in two more days I will be recommending this book to many of my students.