GLIDER PILOTS IN SICILY
Major Mike Peters is a serving Army Air Corps Officer and the Chairman of the International Guild of Battlefield Guides. He cut his teeth as an author with some interesting contributions to the Army Air Corps Newsletter in his youth but current Hawkeye readers will be more familiar with his excellent collaboration with Luuk Buist to publish 'Glider Pilots at Arnhem' in 2009. This latest work does not disappoint. It is well researched and packed with detail but, above all it is very readable and thus effectively informative. Mike has the knack, enviable in gifted historians, of placing first hand accounts alongside the official detail. It works to remind us that there are humans in the machine and that is their bravery and endeavour that makes it work. This is a useful addition to any bookshelf that is dedicated to the Second World War, it is essential to anyone who has an interest in the Glider Pilot Regiment and Airborne Forces but it is also a very good read. - Hawkeye