27 May 2009

A Thousand Shall Fall - Murray Peden

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Remember all the things your parents used to say? “Eat your vegetables”, “You get what you pay for” and “You can’t judge a book by its cove...
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19 May 2009

Desert Flyer - Martyn R Ford-Jones

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As I mentioned in the review for Caine’s Spitfires, Thunderbolts and Warm Beer , the use of a wartime diary is often the genesis for an ins...
15 May 2009

Beyond Courage - Norman Franks

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Without knowing about the author’s earlier work on the subject - Another Kind Of Courage – you’d have little chance of guessing the subjec...
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Charles 'Bud' Tingwell - Rest In Peace

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I've just heard of the passing of this great man. Serving as a recce pilot on Spits and Mossies in the Mediterranean, he went on to beco...
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05 May 2009

Just One Of The Many - Dudley C Egles MID

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Books come in all shapes and sizes and, lately, I’ve seen a couple that are not what you’d expect – but more of those in later reviews. Val...
01 May 2009

Going Solo - Roald Dahl

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I’m embarrassed to say I had completely forgotten Roald Dahl had been a pilot. Like everyone, I knew of his children’s books – Charlie And ...
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29 April 2009

Torpedo Leader - new paperback version from Grub Street

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Hannah from Grub Street Publishing has kindly let me know of a new paperback version of Patrick Gibbs' Torpedo Leader . Grub Street wi...
28 April 2009

Spitfires, Thunderbolts and Warm Beer - Philip D. Caine

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The genesis for many a memoir can be the discovery of a wartime diary. Officially frowned upon, and therefore relatively uncommon, diaries ...
25 April 2009

Wings of Destiny - Charles Page

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With the subtitle giving no doubt as to the subject matter this book by historian Charles Page looks the part on the shelf and in the hand. ...
24 April 2009

A Gremlin On My Shoulder - Ron Cundy DFC, DFM, MID

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First impressions of this book is that there's not a lot of pages which might make you turn to something else on the shelf that appear...
23 April 2009

Torpedo Leader - Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs DSO, DFC and Bar

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There is no way in this universe I could spout on about Patrick Gibb's Not Peace But a Sword without then featuring his well-regarded...
22 April 2009

The Biggin Hill Wing 1941 - Peter Caygill

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Peter Caygill’s latest work focuses on Biggin Hill’s part in Fighter Command’s 1941 offensive operations as it tried to wrest the initiat...

Not Peace But A Sword - Wing Commander Patrick Gibbs DSO, DFC and Bar

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After many years lusting (easily the right word) after a copy of Gibbs' Torpedo Leader I discovered this 'prequel' so naturall...
21 April 2009

Mosquito: Menacing the Reich - Martin Bowman

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Martin Bowman has written extensively on the Mosquito and his latest effort is perhaps the most wide-ranging of them all. Through almost 30...
20 April 2009

Alamein To The Alps - Mark Lax

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Subtitled 454 Sqn 1941-1945, this is a book that provides a thorough history of a relatively unknown RAAF squadron in the Mediterranean th...