The Ghosts of the Eighth Attack by David Beaty

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Combining dramatic action & a poignant love story, Beaty draws on his experience of wartime flying & the tense relationships within a squadron, to recreate a time when young men & women lived on the brink & the threat of death was a constant spectre.

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Beaty flew bombers in WW II and this background comes out clearly in his descriptions of piloting a Blenheim Bomber, life on a WW II RAF base and war time conditions in England. The mixture of flying bombing missions and ghosts of airmen from WW I seemed to me a bit odd. One moment we are immersed in the war and then people are seeing and hearing strange dogs and airplanes that do not appear to exist. For me it was not a comfortable mix but then that could just me me.

The description of a pilot landing safely in a fog because a WW I DH4 led him in reminded me of C. S. Foresters short story, The Shepard.

Oct 24, 2011

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