I have read several "Ace" books, both written from the personal view and second person historical. But, here, bishop is direct, to the point and manages to be entertaining. This book was written shortly after Bishop had been taken out of service and working in Washington, D.C. helping bring the U.S. air effort up to speed- basically, giving lectures and talking up the sales of War bonds. Although some of his amazing aerial combat record has been challenged (he was one of the few allied flyers who's kills did not have to be confirmed by ground observers) in modern times, I could find nothing much in his account to see him as an embellisher. However, although his writing seem authentic, I was a little disturbed by the lack of emotion in his writing. He tries to explain this in a few paragraphs salted through the writing, but, it just gave me a kind of feeling he was being overly flippant about the whole ordeal he had experienced. I am a combat veteran of Vietnam era and could not possibly write something about my own experiences with that sort of machine-like objectivity. Perhaps, I am being too critical. It is possible this style if writing about it is a way of protecting himself from feeling too emotional about it all. It had to have been a terrible experience. Bishop is also rather self aggrandizing. There is little humility to his writing. Although, this could simply be his type-A coming out. Most of the Aces of any war on all sides are very self motivated, aggressive types who think about the enemy as prey animals and not as human beings being horribly killed. If they did, they simply could not carry on, I suppose. As for the writing style, I found Bishop to be fairly skilled and somewhat entertaining. Don't expect to be overwhelmed with prose here. This is a matter of fact personal account, written with some clarity and factual story telling, with few words wasted.