BOMBER PILOT: A MEMOIR OF WORLD WAR II – 1978

by Philip Ardery


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BOMBER PILOTBURDA MODENCRIME & PUNISHMENTTHE COMPLETE WILLIAM SHAKESPEAREMASHOUTDOOR LIFETIME MAGAZINETHE THREE LITTLE PIGSTRAVEL HOLIDAY MAGAZINE


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APPEARANCE

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Upside down on the nightstand, weighed down by a large toy tank, right before Wendy sees REDRUM.

IDENTITY

The book is a firsthand account by a squadron commander’s many raids on various sites during WWII, some controversial, like the Romanian oil fields in Ploesti, and some very uncontroversial, like the air support he helped supply on D-Day. Here’s an extensive and perhaps singular review. It’s also worth noting that the book won the Best Aeronautical Book Award from the Reserve Officers Association of the United States. It sounds like Ardery was very honest about the horrors of war, even if he wasn’t a good enough writer to impress the above reviewer. Many of the Goodreads readers give it props for its humanity.

SYMBOLIC SIGNIFICANCE

What’s really weird, though, is that when Jack enters the room to axe the door, the book has been replaced with a different book, unidentifiable, with an identical physical bearing (dark blue, and with the toy tank still on top). I’m guessing Kubrick didn’t want to combine Jack’s maniac violence with the humanity of Ardery’s testimony.


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