Review: Very detailed and accurate
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 19, 2012
I have read a great many personal accounts of pilots in war. I have read from WWI to present day in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book is very good, well above average and gives the reader excellent insight as to how things really were from North African campaign, to Italy, to England and then into the continent. Edwards was extraordinarily lucky to have been able to fight all the way from the beginning to the last and not get captured, seriously wounded or killed. He remained in the thick of it- right on the cutting edge, you might say and survived through some of the most remarkable aerial fighting on record. I feel very glad he managed to not only write down his adventures, but to have the ability to write it down in such a fashion as to make it very interesting. So many of these kinds of stories are cut and dry writings, with little more than squadron notes recapitulated on the page. This one keeps the reader's attention throughout. I enjoyed it.