Glenn Miller Declassified

I can’t fault this book for its extensive and meticulous research but I fear I wasn’t the intended readership. I think you really have to be a Glenn Miller nerd to be able to plough through the detail, especially the technical detail, not to feel somewhat overwhelmed and, quite frankly, bored at tim......more

A decent book that gives a unique insight to Glenn Miller's wartime service and the events leading up to and after his disappearance over the English Channel. The book isn't so much a biography of Miller's life as it is the biography of the Glenn Miller's Army Air Force Band. The author gives some b......more

Full of extraneous information, acronyms and secondary characters that add absolutely nothing to the story, and I think take away from it. I am a huge Glenn Miller fan and have been for decades, but this book for all its length taught me almost nothing new about his story. That being said, Spragg is......more

Uber detailed but tedious as a result. This book was OK. I listened to the audio version. The reader was not very good, mispronouncing a number of proper nouns.......more

This is an outstanding account of noted bandleader Glenn Miller’s wartime service as leader of the Army Air Forces Band (Special). Miller was too old for military service, but was determined to serve anyway, bringing his talents to bear in a powerful way to raise morale of Allied forces overseas. Som......more