The shadow casters: My journey through war

by H. Frank Stapp

174 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Jeff · Rating 4 out of 5]

“The Shadow Casters” Arther B. Unruh, 2008. Accolades are well deserved for Microsoft’s co-founder Mr. Paul Allen for creating one of the world’s premier WWII aircraft collections. The Flying Heritage Museum’s European Theater Day in September of 2017 was par excellence. Seattle weather was at its finest. Having fielded a Spitfire, Messerschmidt, Hurricane, Mosquito, Mustang and a Thunderbolt, all flying simultaneously, was surely a very rare event. Equally as impressive as the combat aircraft flying overhead, was the lecture given by ninety-five year old, B-17 Flying Fortress crew member Arthur B. Unruh. Like his lecture, Unruh’s book “The Shadow Casters” describes his war time experiences in an intense and entertaining way. Honest, down to earth writing, with the inclusion of copies of news paper clippings, diplomas, orders, correspondences, diagrams, charts and personal photographs, essentially every peice of relevant paper work that could be found, give this biography the flesh and blood, the tangible feel of acute credibility. Heroic gladiators are no longer that of a mythic like sage buried deep in history, but are human, living, breathing men, put in incredable situations, who rise and respond to challenges in remarkable ways. Combat naturally brings out the worst in humanity, but on rare occasions it brings out the best. Arthur B. Unruh is unequivocally part of “the best”

[Eric Olsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Art Unruh multiple times and have even had the pleasure of being involved with his 53rd Mission on the B-17G Aluminum Overcast with other Puget Sound area WW II B-17 veterans. Shadow Casters is his story of life in the U.S. Army Air Corp during WW II as pulled from his diary entries and official documents. An amazing man with an incredible story that is similar to so many others that fought in that war. It's books like these that are the true gems among military books for they are the words of the men who were there and lived it.