The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over GermanyModern · History, Nonfiction, World War II
The Wild Blue: The Men and Boys Who Flew the B-24s Over Germany
2001 · 400 pages · Nonfiction
32
Modern
★ 4.01 on Goodreads · 11K ratings
Lifetime bestseller
≈ 10 hours to read · about 3 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
#1 New York Times bestseller (3 weeks at #1). 4.01★ from 11K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
32Must-Read Score
- Readers48 out of 100 · counts 40%+22
- Critics0 out of 100 · counts 14%+0
- Bestseller28 out of 100 · counts 32% (its stronger lane)+10
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
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Where it ranks
- #143 of the 154 history books we rank
- #493 of the 666 modern books we rank
- #1074 of the 1,404 books we rank
Bestseller
- #1 New York Times bestseller (3 weeks at #1)
Reads as
True story
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