This is not just another book about the Battle of Waterloo: the author, a Senior Lecturer in History and War Studies at York St John University, presents a detailed analysis of the attack of Comte D’Erlon’s I Corps, described as ‘one of the most serious attacks made by the enemy’ in the Duke of Wellington’s Waterloo Dispatch, that has - until now - not had a single book entirely devoted to it, unlike the defence of Hougoumont and La Haye Sainte, or the final attack by the French Imperial Guard. Even Captain William Siborne’s model has been the subject of two books! In Chapter 1, Openings, the author explains that his focus will require analysis of the build-up of the two opposing armies and of their movements in the campaign before the battle, because ‘assessing the formation of the army, the previous service of the troops, and how they were equipped, nourished, and led, is vital to judging the cohesion, character, and confidence of the men who marched into battle.’ This.. Read more
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"It is one of the very few accounts to have been written by one of ‘the many’ without whom ‘The Few’ could not have succeeded. The author joined up in late 1941 and was trained as an armourer, initially serving at a gunnery school. However, shortly before D-Day he joined a ‘Free French’ Spitfire squadron with which he served until the end of the war. The second half of this highly readable account is in effect a detailed history of the Free French Spitfire Wing during the last year of the war. That in itself is hugely welcome, but even more so is the description of the itinerant life of a 2nd Tactical Air Force fighter unit in the months after D-Day and the often-miserable conditions endured by the hardworking and ever faithful groundcrew. No less valuable is the earlier description of life for a working-class family in London during the inter-war years. A peach of a book that was unputdownable."
Andrew Thomas - Author and Historian

There is an amazing amount of detail in this one, which should be of great for anyone with an interest in the Battle of Britain, giving us more detail on the other side of the history of that important period in the history of both the RAF and Britain as a whole. [b] Read the Full Review [link=https://www.militarymodelscenenew.com/book-reviews-1/-luftwaffe-aces-in-the-battle-of-britain] Here [/link] [/b]
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