THE REVIEWS ARE HERE

It’s nice to get an email from your publicist full of quotes like these from the reviewers. My agent’s going to be happy.

New York Journal of Books:

“Cleaver provides a wonderful balance of narrative history with personal recollections, examining both sides of the battle and giving the reader a front seat to some of the amazing flying stories of these early heroes of air combat. The reader will meet some of the legendary American fighter pilots of the war—Don Gentile, Don Blakeslee, Francis Gabreski, and even Chuck Yeager, who was a young fighter pilot shot down over France. This is another excellent volume in his library of American air combat.”

ARGunners:

“Thanks to his unflinching research ethic, and a smooth, pleasurable narrative style, author Tom Cleaver teaches, not as if in a barren classroom, but as a father to a mature son or daughter. Good news or bad. Warts and all. You will learn what
happened, almost on a daily basis, to the VIII Fighter Command between August 19 th , 1942, and the end of operations over Germany on May 5, 1945. For one thing, you’ll be able to share with friends and family it fielded 15 fighter groups destroying 9,000 enemy aircraft in the air and on the ground. Good. The Eighth Air Force suffered more casualties, killed and wounded than the U.S. Marine Corps did between the invasion of Guadalcanal and the capture of Okinawa in June of 1945. Bad. You must hurtle out to order on Amazon, or drive to buy the 464-page nugget of printed reading
gold for a genuine, intuitive emotional empathy of what the pilots and their ground crews experienced, along with the historical contexts behind the decisions and actions taken by the combatants throughout those daily nightmares.”

Litecurious.com:

“Clean Sweep is an excellent book. I thoroughly enjoyed reading and learning more about this great conflict. I especially enjoyed reading some of the personal notes and stories of the pilots; no matter which side they were on. This book was so well written that I felt bad for the young German pilots towards the end of the war. They were thrown into aircraft with minimal training just to become cannon fodder.

“Clean Sweep is full of great historical characters and stories full of valor and bravery. It also provides the reader a brief glimpse into the lives of the pilots that flew these life-or-death missions.”

Library Journal:

“A well-focused history of the costly U.S. Air Forcecampaign over Europe that fatally degraded the Nazi war machine.” (Five stars)

Also getting five stars at Amazon.

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