It's an "interactive" history adventure by Michael Burgan (Denis Showalter is also credited). It gives readers choices. They can decide whether they want to be a pilot or not, and where they want to assigned. Based on their choices, they skip to a certain page.
The choices help young readers appreciate that individual choices affect history and vice versa.
The reader can go back and take a different choice and see how things would have turned out.
The book has "three story paths, 36 choices and 20 endings".
This book is well done, whether or not the individual reading it has any interest in being a pilot or joining the military.
It has Barnes & Noble rating of 5 stars and a Goodreads score of nearly 4.
I am especially interested in it because it connects directly to the theme of Robert Wack's book, the 5-star Time Bomber, which is about the invasion of Normandy in June 1944 from the perspective of the pilot of a Halifax bomber, my uncle Willem van Stockum's role in World War II as a bomber pilot.
The connection between the two books is extraordinary because van Stockum engaged in pioneering mathematical analysis to investigate the scientific basis of time travel, based on Einstein's equations for general relativity.
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