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My War
My War is a blunt, funny, idiosyncratic account of Andy Rooney's World War II. As a young, nave correspondent for The Stars and Stripes, Rooney flew bomber missions, arrived in France during the D-Day invasion, crossed the Rhine with the Allied forces, traveled to Paris for the Liberation, and was one of the first reporters into Buchenwald. Like so many of his generation, ...more
Paperback, 352 pages
Published
October 17th 2002
by PublicAffairs
(first published 1995)
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Picked this up thinking it would be light, enjoyable reading. Well, it was enjoyable, but light it was not. Rooney traces his feelings from conscientious objector to Nazi hater. He served as a correspondent for Stars & Stripes, first following the air war and the Eighth Air Force and after D-Day the land war from Normandy to the meeting of US and Russian forces at the Elbe River.
While he was not a combatant, he did fly five missions on B-17s and on B-24's. On the first one, his p...more
While he was not a combatant, he did fly five missions on B-17s and on B-24's. On the first one, his p...more
The CBS commentator was drafted into the army when he was a student at Colegate University. Despite an undiplomatic streak that led to repeated conflicts with his superiors during basic training, once in Britain he was able to make his way from the artillery to the army newspaper Stars and Stripes based upon luck (mainly) and some experience putting together a sort of unit newsletter. He then learned to be a journalist, eventually covering bombing raids (including some trips on the bombers) and...more
I enjoyed reading My War. Andy Rooney writes like he talks on 60 min. with an easy-going, almost off-hand style. You trust that he is giving an honest and forthright narrative. The picture of the war is very graphic, always illuminating, sometimes painful even disgusting, and sometimes very uplifting.
The details about the lives of pilots and the air war are particularly affecting. The sense of "being there"--seeing events as they happen (albeit from the comfort of an easy ch...more
The details about the lives of pilots and the air war are particularly affecting. The sense of "being there"--seeing events as they happen (albeit from the comfort of an easy ch...more
interesting story of andy as a sort of privileged your man lucking out in getting a press position in ww2 and his stories of the bombers flying out of england and their crews and of france and his travel thru europe covering the war.....certainly opinionated, but he does not conceal that, and an interesting read....
I've always liked Andy Rooney but had now idea that he had been in WWII. His sense of humor and common sense run throughout this memoir, but the inevitable detail about the War felt tedious at times.
Lied this for all the information it gave about World War II. It brings to life the day-to-day life of soldiers and Rooney's chalenges getting newspapers published in the middle of a war.
I could really understand where he came from and how his experiences during the war shaped him.
Looking forward to reading it.
Typical Andy, but he served in WW II.
Better than I thought it would be
What I loved most about this book was that every so often, I could picture Andy Rooney sitting behind his desk speaking to me like he does on "60 Minutes" Awesome memoir!
Love Andy Rooney. He tells it like he sees it. Though some parts were painful to read.
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This is Andy Rooney, the 60-Minutes guy, and his remembrances of his war correspondence in World War II. It's an easy read and Rooney's satirical sense of humor lightens up some of his darker memories of the war.
just good. I like Andy Rooney, and just liked his style of writing out his perspective.
Oh crap! I like a book by Andy "You know what I don't understand" Rooney. I feel so old.
I loved this book because I like his sense of humor and he is a super story teller!!!
Salty old guy. I enjoyed his view of the war. Very well written.
Pretty compelling, although could have used a better copy editor.
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“One question in my mind, which I hardly dare mention in public, is whether patriotism has, overall, been a force for good or evil in the world. Patriotism is rampant in war and there are some good things about it. Just as self-respect and pride bring out the best in an individual, pride in family, pride in teammates, pride in hometown bring out the best in groups of people. War brings out the kind of pride in country that encourages its citizens in the direction of excellence and it encourages them to be ready to die for it. At no time do people work so well together to achieve the same goal as they do in wartime. Maybe that's enough to make patriotism eligible to be considered a virtue. If only I could get out of my mind the most patriotic people who ever lived, the Nazi Germans.”
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