A writer with his head in the sky, if not the clouds.
Military & aviation history
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The finishing school
Last week I was in the Cotswolds, and just had to take my cycle to the old RAF Honeybourne, now a rather ragged industrial estate. But ragged is good – it means that the bones of the former RAF base are still extant. If hangars could talk…. I had to visit it because during WW2…
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Win a free copy!
I received my author copies of Moonlight Crusaders at the weekend. If you retweet my tweet about this (see @skyandbull), you will be in with a chance of winning a free signed copy. (To be posted near publication date of May 7th).
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The Dambusters
Just finished James Holland’s book on this epic raid. Told in his usual high quality style; though I noticed a writing tic he has, and which, once you have noticed it, becomes a tad irritating! In the Nineties whilst at RAF Laarbruch my friends and I nipped down to the Möhne and Sorpe dams. Flying…