"... researchers should add 'Volunteer Aces of Churchill’s Few to their collections."
Read the full review [link=https://www.battleofbritainmemorial.org/post/choppy-waters-await]here[/link]
Geoff Simpson FRHistS - Battle of Britain Memorial Trust
"... researchers should add 'Volunteer Aces of Churchill’s Few to their collections."
Read the full review [link=https://www.battleofbritainmemorial.org/post/choppy-waters-await]here[/link]
Geoff Simpson FRHistS - Battle of Britain Memorial Trust
"Well worth the cover price."
Britain at War Magazine - October 2025
"Well worth the cover price."
Britain at War Magazine - October 2025
As featured in
Scramble 1940 – Official Newsletter of the Battle of Britian Historical Society – Autumn/Winter 2025, Issue 172
As featured in
Scramble 1940 – Official Newsletter of the Battle of Britian Historical Society – Autumn/Winter 2025, Issue 172
"It (the book) is a fascinating read detailing his many flights, over 500, through meticulous research of newspaper articles of the day and contemporary letters".
The Aerostat, the official magazine of the British Balloon & Airship Club - August 2025. Reviewer: Dr David Bareford - a highly regarded World Champion balloonist.
"It (the book) is a fascinating read detailing his many flights, over 500, through meticulous research of newspaper articles of the day and contemporary letters".
The Aerostat, the official magazine of the British Balloon & Airship Club - August 2025. Reviewer: Dr David Bareford - a highly regarded World Champion balloonist.
With VJ Day commemorations fresh in the memory this fascinating and highly readable book recounts one airman’s war against the Japanese but also provides a detailed insight into RAF Liberator bomber operations over Burma during the last year of the war. Flt Lt Roy Andrews the subject served with 215 Squadron and through the prism of his operational service as a wireless operator/air gunner (Wop/AG) the author offers an insight into the triumphs and tragedies of the squadron that were mirrored by all of the sister units. It is thus not a dry read but one full of at times heart stopping narrative but with much detail that will please historians as will its chronological approach. It is first and foremost one man’s story and is thus all the more poignant with being read exactly 80 years after the events. This is highly recommended to both the general reader and the historian and stands as a monument to ‘one of the many.’
Andrew Thomas - Author and Historian
With VJ Day commemorations fresh in the memory this fascinating and highly readable book recounts one airman’s war against the Japanese but also provides a detailed insight into RAF Liberator bomber operations over Burma during the last year of the war. Flt Lt Roy Andrews the subject served with 215 Squadron and through the prism of his operational service as a wireless operator/air gunner (Wop/AG) the author offers an insight into the triumphs and tragedies of the squadron that were mirrored by all of the sister units. It is thus not a dry read but one full of at times heart stopping narrative but with much detail that will please historians as will its chronological approach. It is first and foremost one man’s story and is thus all the more poignant with being read exactly 80 years after the events. This is highly recommended to both the general reader and the historian and stands as a monument to ‘one of the many.’
Andrew Thomas - Author and Historian
RAF at the Crossroads
The events of 1942 marked a pivotal year in the history of British air power. For more than two decades the theory that long-range bombing could win wars had dominated British defence policy. The vast majority of warplanes ordered for the RAF were designed either to bomb enemy cities or stop the enemy from bombing British cites. Conventional armies… Read more...
