Just occasionally a book appears that has the ‘wow’ factor. This is one of them. The title is slightly misleading in that it is a microscopic description of the operations of a single squadron in Bomber Command during the last 2½ years of WW2. Having been destroyed in the fall of Malaya, 100 Squadron was reformed at Grimsby in mid-December 1942 and slowly built up to begin operations in March 1943. The Squadron then operated as part of 1 Group as one of 56 Lancaster bomber squadrons until the ned of the war. This remarkable book that has been 40 years in the making relates the triumphs and tragedies of 100 Squadron through the highpoints of the bomber offensive in all its fury and its story could be that of any of the other units. With the drive of the true enthusiast, the author benefitted from being able to interview or correspond with many of the participants from the air and ground crews – sadly now all gone. The narrative is therefore regularly punctuated with first-hand accounts.. Read more
Andrew Thomas - Author and Historian

"It is one of the very few accounts to have been written by one of ‘the many’ without whom ‘The Few’ could not have succeeded. The author joined up in late 1941 and was trained as an armourer, initially serving at a gunnery school. However, shortly before D-Day he joined a ‘Free French’ Spitfire squadron with which he served until the end of the war. The second half of this highly readable account is in effect a detailed history of the Free French Spitfire Wing during the last year of the war. That in itself is hugely welcome, but even more so is the description of the itinerant life of a 2nd Tactical Air Force fighter unit in the months after D-Day and the often-miserable conditions endured by the hardworking and ever faithful groundcrew. No less valuable is the earlier description of life for a working-class family in London during the inter-war years. A peach of a book that was unputdownable."
Andrew Thomas - Author and Historian

A very detailed account, and it must have taken a lot of work to tie up the German accounts with the RAF records as well. It is one of those stories that tells the personal accounts as well as taking in the changes in equipment and systems on both sides over the years, as each tried to outwit the other. It makes for an interesting read. Read the full review [link=http://www.militarymodelling.com/news/article/nachtjagd-defenders-of-the-reich-1940-1943/23851]here!{/link]
Military Modelling, Robin Buckland