Tornado: In the Eye of the Storm

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I’m left with the utmost respect for the men who flew these planes during Gulf War 1, on which this story is mostly centred, but also the impact their work has on the families left behind hoping & praying for their safe return.

I thoroughly enjoyed this, a great piece of historical non-fiction writing that reads like a thriller. John Nichol is the unique position of being a combatant (giving his narrative immediacy and authenticity) writing 30 years after the fact (giving a measure of perspective) who is also a talented writer (bringing coherence, drama, and clear analysis). Some great detail about the Tornado aircraft and what it felt like to fly such an incredible machine, but also a lot about the many individuals whose personal experience this story details. Cover yourself with the pillows, blankets, and sleeping bags. If there’s a sturdy piece of furniture, like a table, crawl under it. I have always been interested in the environment, ever since I studied Human Ecology under Professor Roger Revelle at Harvard. Several summer jobs in the Arctic with the Geological Survey of Canada gave me an early appreciation of what climate change meant for the polar region, and a more recent visit to Greenland brought the environmental devastation there more into focus. Also, having escaped from Communist Hungary in 1956, I have keenly followed Russia and its superpower ambitions, so it was natural for me to combine these two areas of interest into an environmental thriller. I am now writing a sequel, Arctic Inferno.This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

Fantastic book. Written by a man with first hand experience of the Gulf War and who was captured by the enemy. Mathis’ Storm Warning brings this incredible series of natural powers to life through meticulously investigated reporting, weaving in testimonies from the people whose lives were completely altered in their wake. Mathis also pays homage to the incredible work done by those caught in the crossfire of the storm, as well as those whose tireless work helped keep the disaster from becoming a catastrophe. Storm Kings: The Untold History Of America’s First Tornado Chasers – Lee SandlinToday, we're faced with massive shifts in the environment that challenge who we are as humans. Scientists have proposed that we have left the Holocene and entered the Anthropocene, the Age of Humans, to mark the significance of our increasingly dominant role in a changing environment. But the problem right now is that we are having trouble seeing the future that is revealing itself because we continue to see it in our old ways of knowing. The books I have chosen show us the world that is coming. My hope is that, where some will resist the message of scientists, more may be swayed by writers, painters, photographers, musicians, and filmmakers. Have you ever been in a tornado? Well in this book there is a tornado and the family goes into the cellar and decides that they should tell a story. The main character, Pete, tells a story about when another tornado happened. They find a dog and name it Tornado. As you can guess, the book is named Tornado. This is why I would give this book a 3.5/5. There is something about a 'happily ever after' that, no matter how hard it is to get there, it is so satisfying when you do. If there is a little humor mixed in with mystery that can take your emotions on a rollercoaster, that’s all the better. I decided to write romance because I do believe in fairy tales. I believe love is a choice. You make it what you want. I am a romantic suspense author because I love the thrill of solving the crime. In many cases, truth is stranger than fiction. Many times I use real-life issues and moments in time in my writing to pique the readers' curiosity. While this is a history of the Tornado over 50 years from conception to retirement only a single chapter is dedicated to the period 1969 - 1990, and another from 1992 to 2019. The bulk of the book focuses on 1990 - 91, and the Tornado's preparation for and participation in Operation Granby / Desert Storm. Nichol himself was a Tornado navigator, and famously was shot down and captured in Iraq along with his pilot. Ralph Moody was eight years old in 1906 when his family moved from New Hampshire to a Colorado ranch. Through his eyes we experience the pleasures and perils of ranching there early in the twentieth century. Auctions and roundups, family picnics, irrigation wars, tornadoes and wind storms give authentic color to Little Britches. So do adventures, wonderfully told, that equip Ralph to take his father's place when it becomes necessary. Little Britches was the literary debut of Ralph Moody, who wrote about the adventures of his family in eight glorious books, all available as Bison Books.