The Blister Club: The Extraordinary Story of the Downed American Airmen Who Escaped to Safety in World War II

Review Lanning’s writing style is clear, straightforward, and engaging, but what makes this book especially riveting is that these stories are told largely in the words of the airmen themselves in their Evasion and Escape (E&E) reports. Using archival materials located at the National Archives and the Air War College Library, Lanning starts most of his twenty-six chapters with an airman’s E&E report and follows with a discussion of similar reports. Lanning uses these documents so that the narrators can tell the stories of their survival in their own words. Lanning does not assume that his audience has more than a layperson’s knowledge of this period in US military history, and, as a reader who has not read extensively on this topic, I found this book to be accessible. At the same time, it would be of interest to scholars who are well versed in the history of US Army Air Forces in the European theater of World War II. ―

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