by ozzy72 » Mon Jul 14, 2003 2:08 pm
I agree with Bridge To Far, I haven't read the other two.
Others that should be are First Light by Geoffrey Wellum, it was published last year, and gives a v.personal insight into the Battle of Britain by one of Britains youngest Spitfire pilots. I couldn't put it down, and I know a few other people here feel the same way about it.
Others that would make for good reading would be Orde Wingate by Trevor Royle, for an insight into the British before WWII in the Middle East, which lead to many of todays problems, and the Far East campaign by Wingate, Long Range Desert Group by W.E. Kennedy-Shaw (LRDG intelligence officer), who really shows what the desert campaigns were about, and possibly Spycatcher by Peter Wright as an insight into the Cold War.
Frankly most of the chosen history books I read were more dull than a piece of rust, I've learnt far more history since leaving school than I ever did whilst I was there.
Ozzy
There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!
