James M. Scott (3)

First off, I have to say it's a very good history of the Doolittle raid. Great place to start if you know nothing about the subject. I like how Scott includes what happened to the Chinese after the raid and found documents in Japan that actually described the damage done by the raiders. The sections covering Jimmy Doolittle himself are well done and extensively researched. The parts I didn't like: maybe because I just finished a very good WWII book that challenged some long held assumptions, there really wasn't anything new in Target Tokyo and that disappointed me. I wish Scott would have included a crew list for each plane as an appendix, along with the job of each individual, and more pictures (of the raid, the damages, the planes, the raiders - not just the same portraits of Halsey and King that we've seen a million times) would have been nice.… (más)