SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
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Spitfire: A very British Love Story, by John Nichol.
A few choice bits of nonsense and rot inserted throughout.
Dont see a problem, Vickers made a decent gun didn't they ?
I am disappointed they didn't list for powerplant "Fire-tube boilers" or something like that.
If you want to know more about Pappy Gunn, I think you're better off going to Wikipedia.
George McGovern, not Wallace. Ambrose, at least towards the latter part of his career had some pretty well supported allegations about his doing little research and less writing.Caidin's writing drives me up the wall. Aside from the factual errors, his style is so purple and full of superlatives that it really clouds the issues. To hear him tell it, every plane he wrote about was the best of the best.
I've owned and read a couple of Osprey books, one on Baar, one about Tiger tanks, both full of inaccuracies.
Ambrose was a pleasant enough writer to read, but I agree with the criticism above of The Wild Blue; it is indeed essentially a bio of a young George Wallace (not that that's a bad thing), but doesn't really touch on the bomber's pluses, minuses, and idiosyncrasies.
George McGovern, not Wallace. Ambrose, at least towards the latter part of his career had some pretty well supported allegations about his doing little research and less writing.
There is a book about Pappy Gunn, "Indestructible" by John R. Bruning. I have not read it yet.