James Bradley, in his horrifying war novel Flyboys, expresses the cruelness that so many men fought through during World War II and goes into the painful details of the conflicts between the two opposing sides of the war. Bradley describes his experiences working as a fighter plain flyer first by talking through the different locations of battles in which he fought, then by reminiscing over the different personalities of each of his army brothers and friends, and finally by reliving his memories as a flyboy. Bradley’s purpose is to inform the readers about reality of the war and how it is not all the glory that many people crack it up to be. Bradley adopts a somber tone to touch the emotions of his readers young and old alike. Flyboys tells