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Talk about really screwing up.
 
If you look closely, Amazon lists it for teens and young adults. Guess History is a subject they really, really want to change. :unsure:

Also the FW190’s, which I think they are tying to depict, are missing the Swastika on the tail. Frankly, the art makes it look like a bad combination of a Corsair, a P-45 Thunderbolt and a FW190.
 
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If you look closely, Amazon lists it for teens and young adults. Guess History is a subject they really, really want to change. :unsure:

Also the FW190’s, which I think they are tying to depict, are missing the Swastika on the tail. Frankly, the art makes it look like a bad combination of a Corsair, a P-45 Thunderbolt and a FW190.
I had to look at the art 2x to get the ‘joke.’ I sent the pic to my 14 year old, and he had to look 2x as well.

“I don’t get it…”
“Look at the details.”
“Oh, the planes aren’t Japanese.”

We’re not totally fucked as a society, but sometimes you miss the trees for the forest…

Though, I do expect more from a published work.
 
I had to look at the art 2x to get the ‘joke.’ I sent the pic to my 14 year old, and he had to look 2x as well.

“I don’t get it…”
“Look at the details.”
“Oh, the planes aren’t Japanese.”

We’re not totally fucked as a society, but sometimes you miss the trees for the forest…

Though, I do expect more from a published work.
It goes further, look at the water, its a river, bears no resemblance to Pearl Harbor much less having warships docked.
 
The back cover is plenty bad itself.

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Reads terribly, capitalization and grammar are fucky, and the sentence "Had he of been mortally wounded I wouldn't have a story to tell."

Either he didn't write/wasn't involved in doing the covers, or the rest of the actual book is as bad...
 
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Proofreading is a lost art, I tell ya.

Half the people on the internet are borderline illiterate. I've always been an avid reader, and it used to make my brain hurt trying to read some of the third grade level ramblings some people would post online. I must be building up a tolerance, because it doesn't make me want to scream quite as bad now, even though it's down to first grade level these days.
 
Got to watch books in the world of home prints and charlatan generated crap.

I bought a book about a marine… turned out to be Wikipedia entries, screen scrapes, a couple of news paper articles from random places on the web. Total garbage.

Another was on Japanese General Kuribiashi. Supposed to be a memoir and that should have been my clue. He hara kiri’d himself before capture. The &$@%€ing POS travesty of a book was supposedly a series of seances set up by some Japanese author who communes with the dead generals and sells their autobiographies. It was total mystic gobbledygook (see what I did there) crap. Useless except as a joke.

Watch what you buy in a world where anyone can be William Randolph Hearst at the touch of a send button.

It’s why we have things like aliens and sleeping bullets and shined Velcro sneakers.

Sirhr
 
Proofreading is a lost art, I tell ya.

Half the people on the internet are borderline illiterate. I've always been an avid reader, and it used to make my brain hurt trying to read some of the third grade level ramblings some people would post online. I must be building up a tolerance, because it doesn't make me want to scream quite as bad now, even though it's down to first grade level these days.
Between dyslexia and spell check changing my words that I finally spelled correctly, I may be the one with the third grade writing. In my earlier years my work was used for state wide training and even got a couple of articles published in regional news. Fortunately, for me, my proof reading skills were better and the power of spell check, not so much, leaving my corrections, correct.

To quote and paraphrase the the song; “With age, its all coming back to me now.” (Ltos of errers).