I'm a big baseball fan and reading about Willie makes me remember my childhood when we discussed who was the best: Willie, Duke or Mickey. It became clear later on that Willie was one of the two or three best all time players. It is a thorough biography (maybe a little too thorough) but with v...
This is the true story of a friendship that became legendary between two fighter pilots in a Northern Vietnamese POW camp which the inmates called the Zoo. One prisoner, Fred Cherry, is one of the first black air force fighter pilot officers and the first black officer captured by the Vietnamese...
The Good Life While Halyburton and Cherry led separate lives in Vietnam, their experiences overlapped in one critical respect. Both discovered that their lengthy incarceration had a transforming, even uplifting, effect. As the years passed, they were forced to shun conventional ideas of happiness...