Review of Mauritius through Its Medicinal Plants : towards a better understanding of medicinal plants of the Indian Ocean Islands (Paperback)

Frank Luke: Balloon Buster is the greatest book I've ever read in the category of young boys' books.It isn't a baby-child book as Amazon.com has rated it.In fact, the book is for 4th grade through 8th grade level.It was written by the master, Charles Coombs, also the author of Sabre Jet Ace and other great war/peace-time adventures for young boys.He considered his target audience to be young adventuresome Americans and said so often.When I was a boy in Indiana, I was inspired by this book and it's way of placing you there in the trences, and over the landscape in Verdun, France where 6 million young men gave their lives for their countries.Frank Luke was an all-American young man with determination and fighting spirit.

The book tells the story of a young Arizona farm boy who enlist in the Army-Air Force and finds his calling in shooting down the Hydrogen-filled balloons ("sausages") that the Germans suspend near the front lines in order for an observer to call in accurate artillery onto the allied troops.This is the most dangerous job an allied pilot.So much so, that shooting down one balloon counted for two planes.In so doing, Frank Luke became the Americans' leading ace for a short while, and would have kept the title, had he not been shot down in September of 1918, just before the end of the war.

I highly recommend this book to you if you value ambition, courage, patriotism and masculinity in your son's life.I've been trying to get a copy of this book for years to no avail.I own the Balloon Buster: Frank Luke of Arizona book, but don't confuse it with Charles Coombs' book that was written to inspire.

If you would like to sell me a copy, I'd love to have one personally for my son to read when he gets a little older!

P.S. - And, oh yes, I've personally read it over 100 times thanks to the Fairhaven Baptist Academy library, there in Chesterton, Indiana.



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