I have just written my review for Fonthill Media on their website review of the book: The best book about an RAF Squadron at war. (20/01/2015) Steve Brew has written a masterpiece. It is shown by the quality and detail of this book, just how many years hard research he has put in to create as fine a tribute to a wartime fighter Squadron as I have ever read. 41 Sqn fought a long, hard war and deserved a good author to tell it`s story;It got it with Steve Brew. The book is the companion to his other on 41 Sqn and this book is full of great combat accounts for the Battle of Britain and right up to 1942 where the other book takes up the story. Blood, Sweat and Courage (The title) sums up the cost paid for our freedom by the sacrifice and the sheer hard fighting done by 41 Sqn throughout these early years of WW2 where so many died for Britain and the free World. Many famous and relatively unknown pilots and fighter aces are told of in unprecedented detail;Eric Lock, the top scoring Battle of Britain pilot, Terry Webster, George Ben Bennions, Shippy Shipman, Tony Lovell, Norman Green to Black Ryder and many others. Steve has made their stories highly readable to the layman and also fascinating for future historians and enthusiastic students of history at the same time. Nothing could be done to better this book and no one will ever write as fine a book on any RAF Squadron;Of that, I am sure. It is all here:Tragic losses and the days of victory, Humour, sadness, air combat, heroics and above all a day to day record of every combat, every day of operations for 41 Spitfire Squadron throughout the war. Rating for this book:Exceptional! Paul Davies
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 08:12:51 +0000