Reviews

Pale Horse: Hunting Terrorists and Commanding Heroes with the 101st Airborne Division by Jimmy Blackmon, Stanley McChrystal

nelsta's review against another edition

4.0

Pale Horse is a great memoir by Jimmy Blackmon. It accurately captures the stress and heavy decisions required of a field commander during war. I appreciated a book written from the aerial perspective rather than a boots-on-the-ground narrative driven by high-intensity firefights. The story from the air doesn't give the same blood-pounding adrenaline rush that books like House To House give, but it does provide a unique perspective often missing from the American conflict narratives.