RaveSan Francisco ChronicleBrown combines history with humanity in a tense, tender and well-researched study of the lives disrupted and disregarded by misperceptions and misinformation ... The four heroic men demonstrate that Facing the Mountain is \'not a story about victims,\' as Brown writes. Rather, \'It’s a story of victors, of people striving, resisting, rising up, standing on principle, laying down their lives, enduring and prevailing.\'
Katherine Sharp Landdeck
PositiveThe San Francisco Chronicle... starts with a dramatic takeoff, introducing a personal story that author Katherine Sharp Landdeck, also a pilot, uses effectively to historicize a little-known, important part of U.S. military aviation ... The women featured in the book have altitude and attitude ... When Landdeck writes that \'it was clear (in 1942) that this new conflict was going to be fought, and won, in the air,\' it raises the question of what American sailors and ground troops would have argued. The book could have also included fewer vague cliches, including \'young and full of promise\' ...But those are nitpicks. The book is a prime opportunity to admire women in service.
