"... descriptions of life on convoy escort duties and attacks on U-boats are vivid and interesting.... There are some fascinating and rare photographs..."
Peter Wykeham-Martin - Warship World

"...the author has written a compelling and moving account of the young couple's lives being torn apart by world events in late 1941."
Loopholes, Journal for the Pillbox Study Group - Number 91

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AirMail - Royal Air Forces Association - Winter 2025

As the only candidate, before or since, ever to have achieved 100% in the tactics paper in the entrance examination for the army Staff College Eric Dorman-Smith ought perhaps to be better known to posterity, but as history is written by the victors, and as ‘Chink’ (nicknamed after the antelope mascot of his regiment) had managed to alienate most of them, it is not surprising that he has almost disappeared except to a few military historians. That while at the Staff College he ostentatiously burned all the precis compiled by one of the instructors, one Lieutenant Colonel BL Montgomery, would be remembered by a man who never forgot a grudge. There is only one good biography of him, ‘Chink – A Biography’ by Lavinia Greacen, published in 1989 and rightly lauded as a masterly account of the man and his times, describing his undoubted intellect and abilities while also recognising his flaws. It deservedly became a best seller and was translated into several languages. After that brief.. Read more
Aspects of History - Gordon Corrigan, author of Mud, Blood and Poppycock - Britain and the First World War, and The Second World War - A Military History

Author Jean Paul Pallud has done a number of books for After the Battle, and they remain among my favourites. This latest one is every bit as good, and as someone who has long been interested in the subject of the German V-weapons during WW2, this one has jumped straight in to be one of my favourite references on the subject. Some diagrams and the archive photos give detail on the V-2 units that will be especially attractive to modellers I think. For anyone interested in the V-weapons story, and in visiting the various sites in Northern France which are now museums to visit, I'd suggest this really should be on your bookshelf. Read the full review [link=https://www.militarymodelscenenew.com/book-reviews-1/vergeltungswaffen-the-third-reich's-v-missiles-then-and-now]here[/link]
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