Round the Clock
Another vast and splendid aviation-related volume with original photographs by Philip Kaplan and text by a highly qualified collaborator, in this case a leading aviation writer from Britain. The subject is the strategic bombing campaign waged from England during World War II by the RAF's Bomber Command and the U.S. Eighth Air Force. The narrative is the customary mosaic of first-person narratives, history, and selected quotations. The photographs again mix Kaplan's shots of people and places as they are today with others--well chosen and uncommonly well reproduced--of the planes, people, and places as they were in 1942-45. An expensive but worthy companion to Kaplan's previous successes,One Last Look,Little Friends, andTheir Finest Hour.Roland Green