My Fatherland edition by Ron Billingsley Literature Fiction eBooks
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Moments before launching into the night on his first combat mission over Vietnam, Danny Manley, a young African-American, learns that Nat Washington has been shot. As he steers toward the sleeping village which he has been assigned to bomb, he reflects on the events which have led him to the cockpit of this navy attack plane and have led Nat to a violent death in Mississippi.
Danny is torn between his passion for flying and his love for Joan, Danny’s strong, passionate and fearless girlfriend, and Nat, his best friend, cousin and civil rights activist in the south. Each of them have opposed his life as a military aviator.
Finding himself on both a moral and mystical journey as he works to achieve his life-long dream of flight, Danny learns what it means to protect what Nat calls his “fatherland.” Can he achieve that dream and hold on to it in the midst of Joan’s opposition, his father’s disapproval, and the escalating tension of fighting a questionable war, in a far-off land, while at home, a war of racial prejudice and oppression against its own black citizens is being waged?
Set against the background of the United States civil rights struggles in the 60s, Danny’s love for Joan is filled with intense and mystical beauty despite their taboo interracial relationship and the painful tension of lovers finding that their deep commitments seem to be taking them in sharply opposed directions.
As Danny gets progressively closer to the fulfillment of his childhood dream of being a combat aviator he draws ever nearer to a painful and seemingly insoluble conflict with Joan, his life-long friend Nat, and indeed, with himself.
My Fatherland edition by Ron Billingsley Literature Fiction eBooks
This is a suspiciously autobiographical novel, of a smart young black who dreams only of flying. His dominating mother has other plans for his future. His long-time girlfriend has his life planned to the smallest detail. His athletic, sports-fanatic and demeaning dad is disappointed in his inability to master sports or self-defense and worries about his son's survival in a racist 1950's-60's era society. Civil-rights activist friends press him to give up flight training in favor of the Martin Luther King - inspired desegregation attempts in the South. Further racial, physical and mental obstacles are encountered in the demanding flight training program which offers this non-violent youth the realization of his dream of flying, but at the cost of using his beloved planes as instruments of death.The beautifully written scenes involving the joys of flight and the uniquely dangerous carrier landings are incomparably riveting and memorable, from both an aesthetic and flight technique point of view. You felt you were in the cockpit, floating in the endless beauty of the sky on one hand and feeling the tension of dangerous maneuvers on the other.
Growing up as a smart middle-class patriotic youth who wished only to follow his dreams was uniquely difficult in a time in which the forces of the Civil Rights Movement, and the Vietnam War were occurring in a society attempting to finally come to terms with its racial divide.
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My Fatherland edition by Ron Billingsley Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Wow. What an amazing book. Ron Billingsley does an amazing job with recounting the history of such a powerful era in American history. It seems like he was there, and this book is so emotionally engaging. This is a story that needs to get broadcasted, taking a perspective that very few know about African American soldiers fighting in Vietnam, although their war was really at home with racial inequality.
The title of Ron Billingsley's novel, "My Fatherland," subtly and ironically raises a question that our country has yet to address successfully "Aren't the descendants of African female slaves and their white male owners also able to claim that the United States of America is their Fatherland"? Apparently partially autobiographical, the author traces the difficult but successful struggle of a young African-American man to become a naval aviator in a white man's navy, flying a Douglas A-1 Skyraider off and on aircraft carriers during the early 1960s It is also a novel about an interracial love affair during the early Ciivil Rights Movement. I found it a well-written page-turner that deserves a wide readership, and hope it someday appears in print. Charles Proudfit, Professor Emeritus of English
This is a suspiciously autobiographical novel, of a smart young black who dreams only of flying. His dominating mother has other plans for his future. His long-time girlfriend has his life planned to the smallest detail. His athletic, sports-fanatic and demeaning dad is disappointed in his inability to master sports or self-defense and worries about his son's survival in a racist 1950's-60's era society. Civil-rights activist friends press him to give up flight training in favor of the Martin Luther King - inspired desegregation attempts in the South. Further racial, physical and mental obstacles are encountered in the demanding flight training program which offers this non-violent youth the realization of his dream of flying, but at the cost of using his beloved planes as instruments of death.
The beautifully written scenes involving the joys of flight and the uniquely dangerous carrier landings are incomparably riveting and memorable, from both an aesthetic and flight technique point of view. You felt you were in the cockpit, floating in the endless beauty of the sky on one hand and feeling the tension of dangerous maneuvers on the other.
Growing up as a smart middle-class patriotic youth who wished only to follow his dreams was uniquely difficult in a time in which the forces of the Civil Rights Movement, and the Vietnam War were occurring in a society attempting to finally come to terms with its racial divide.
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