Answers are based almost entirely on what *I* find interesting, which may not be what *you* find interesting. I read the Horowitz book a number of years ago and enjoyed it (at the time, no idea how it would stand up now). It is very "clueless white boy tourists through American history" but he's also fairly self-aware about that and open-minded about trying just about everything there is to try in the various places he goes, so, idk, it worked for me.
Both of the WWII books sound really interesting to me, but I'm interested in that general period of history as well (early 1900s through the Roaring 20s/Depression/WWII) so it's relevant to my interests. Especially the fighter pilot one. One of the things I find fascinating about WWII Allied and Axis pilots is that they appear to have gotten along really well even while the war was going on; I'm sure there were True Believers on both sides, but for the most part, they were guys who liked planes, who were happy to bond with other guys who liked planes as long as they were in a context where they weren't actually trying to kill each other. Some of them looked each other up after the war and formed friendships that lasted for the rest of their lives.
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Date: 2017-06-02 10:59 pm (UTC)Both of the WWII books sound really interesting to me, but I'm interested in that general period of history as well (early 1900s through the Roaring 20s/Depression/WWII) so it's relevant to my interests. Especially the fighter pilot one. One of the things I find fascinating about WWII Allied and Axis pilots is that they appear to have gotten along really well even while the war was going on; I'm sure there were True Believers on both sides, but for the most part, they were guys who liked planes, who were happy to bond with other guys who liked planes as long as they were in a context where they weren't actually trying to kill each other. Some of them looked each other up after the war and formed friendships that lasted for the rest of their lives.