The novel Twelve O’Clock High by Sy Bartlett and Beirne Lay Jr. was written by two bomber combat veterans and reads like it in the best way. This is a book that you or I would have to do piles of research to write, but Bartlett and Lay took their art and writing backgrounds and ably fictionalized their wartime experience and the cast of characters that populated it. Many of the events depicted in the novel are recognizable from nonfiction work about the Eighth Air Force, including Donald Miller’s Masters of the Air. It is very focused on the human cost of warfare, character-driven in a way we always enjoy here at Rosie, and is definitely worth a read.