• Title: The Last Christmas Show
• Author: Bob Hope, Peter Martin
• Genre/Subject: Biography
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Publication Date: 1974
• Start date: 7/7/2021
• Finish date: 7/12/2021

Review:

This was a difficult one for me to read at an emotional level. It was a page turner for sure, couldn’t put it down sometimes, but the one liners and sexy girls could never quite cover the tragic loss of so many lives, both military and civilian.

The flag waving and anti-Commie one liners don’t disguise the war orphans, the devastated villages, the ruins of cities and the ruins of lives. By the last tour in 1972 soldiers had to be ordered to attend the USO show.

Without entering into the complex motivations and justifications for involvement in all the combat theaters it is enough to say that the USO tours had overstayed their welcome in them by 1972.