Geoffrey Wellum: First Light.
Review by Clare Mollison from Leith, found on the web
This is an engaging first hand account of Geoffrey Wellum's experience in the RAF during the Second World War, particularly during the Battle of Britain in 1940/41.
Wellum's informal and detailed account of his experience is accessible and entertaining. I found this an enlightening and surprising account of an angle of WW2 which was new to me.
Wellum's style and tone are pleasant and at times gripping, and he succeeds in bringing the activities of more than 60 years ago close to the present.
It contains moving memories of airmen who were killed in action, and vividly catalogues his growing up from raw schoolboy to mature soldier and pilot.
While not making light of war, it is not a bleak book and will be of interest to those who would not normally read about the war or air craft. It comes across as an honest account of what Wellum felt at the time, naive in places but naturally so and accurately portraying the risks, pressure, exhilaration that young airmen felt.
I would recommend this book to other readers - perhaps giving it 7/10.
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