Always a pleasure to review a book by this author, who is building a formidable portfolio of aviation titles. This book covers a period of aviation that has seen enormous changes but strangely been under-reported. Here is a book to correct this. Most Highly Recommended.

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Firetrench

Martin W Bowman is a prolific author of dozens of books about air warfare during the Second World War, especially about operations of the US Army Air Force and the Royal Air Force over Western and Central Europe. His work usually relies heavily on first-hand experiences of pilots and crew members to tell the story. While he is an author offering the ‘oral history’ type of narratives that are not always in 'perfect synchronisation' with various official-, or documentation-supported works, Bowman is excelling not only at providing enjoyable narratives, but foremost through providing the reader with an excellent perspective of what the air battles in question used to look like for those who participated. His books are always full of highly interesting details, and richly illustrated too. If one wants to know what was it to fly a B-17 over Nazi Germany, there is hardly another author to offer a better description.

Tom Cooper, Military Aviation Journalist