Candy Bomber: The Story of the Berlin Airlift's "Chocolate Pilot"

These is a great book that I had to read for. History report.

The book came as described. Not disappointed!

Loved it! Shows the human spirit and how one amazing individual brought joy to children after a devastating war destroyed so much around them. Could and should be a part of curriculum in our schools when discussing Worl War II.

Perfect for all ages! This book contains all one needs to learn about the extra kindness shown by an exceptional man.

this is a great book of part of the Berlin airlift, it is truely a great story of a great person that went out of his way to drop candy to the children of east Berlin by small parachutes and occationally dropping candy to the children in west Berlin until Gale Havelson was told that he couldn't drop any more candy to the east Berlin side but he did drop candy any way and he told the brass that the wind can take it any way it wants to. T he story is based upon this great pilot and the people all over this great country that supported him in the canndy drop but making small parachutes and collecting candy for the drops

I loved this book and found tears in my eyes more than once. I loved that I could read it in two hours. It would have been less time if I hadn't had a phone call while reading it. I loved that it tells the story of how he got the idea to do it, how he did it and how it grew, very simply without a lot of extra words and descriptions. I would recommend this book to anyone who hasn't already read one of the adult versions, which probably give the same facts with a lot more words.

What a wonderful story. We read this as one of our required summer reading books. My son wouldn't stop talking about the first chapter so we ended up reading the book together. It was a great opportunity for many teachable moments. This book really sparked his interest in events from this time period. It more than anything allowed him to see the kindness and compassion that is lacking in today's world.

It was a very interesting book to read and very heart touching how the pilot helped the little children .