A QUESTION OF LOYALTY: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation
Douglas C. Waller, . . HarperCollins, $26.95 (439pp) ISBN 978-0-06-050547-9
A superb and charismatic Signal Corps officer and innovative air tactician in WWI, Mitchell, the son of a Wisconsin senator, faced an internal conflict: should he be loyal to his superior officers, whom he regarded as almost treasonably incompetent, or to what he saw as his country's best interests, which included a vastly larger, united and independent air arm? The result was a famous court-martial, which
Reviewed on: 07/12/2004
Genre: Nonfiction