In my previous post, I discussed my concerns with the way sources are used in Neil Hanson’s First Blitz.1 Here I turn to the problem of strategy, which goes more to the argument of the book. Again there are two parts to this, one broad and one narrow. I’ll start with the broad. Hanson’s argument […]
This is a continuation, of sorts, of my series of posts critiquing the recent trend of describing the air raids on Britain in the First World War as the ‘First Blitz’. I’ve separated it out because, although it is about the best-known book to use that phrase in its title – Neil Hanson’s First Blitz
John Llewelyn Rhys, The Flying Shadow (Bath: Handheld Press, 2022). John Llewelyn Rhys, England Is My Village and The World Owes Me a Living (Bath: Handheld Press, 2022). John Llewelyn Rees was born on 7 May 1911, got his pilot’s license on 4 July 1934, and was killed in a flying accident on 5 August
For the last (?) time: all RAAF, all the time; from Bristol Fighters through Sunderlands and Sabres to Super Hornets.
A mixed bag as the end of the year of reading airmindedly approaches. (I think there’ll be one more edition, though.)
American airpower; Australian air force; all airlines.
There’s very little linking these three books, except perhaps that they all reflect, in very different ways, the long drawdown of British power.
There’s something for everyone here, from low-tech flying replicas to hi-tech death from the skies!
Bomber (x2) and fighters (and bombers).
Some classics (?) here: airports, biography, bombing.
