Crash Course: From the Good War to the Forever War

Growing up during the Second World War, H. Bruce Franklin believed what he was told: that America’s victory would lead to a new era of world peace. Like most Americans, he was soon led to believe in a world—wide Communist conspiracy that menaced the United States, forcing the nation into a disastrous war in Korea. But once he joined the U.S. Air Force and began flying top—secret missions as a navigator and intelligence officer, what he learned was eye—opening. He saw that even as the U.S. p...