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Rather an unusual post, this one. I'm actually quite reluctant to present this issue in an open public forum but have decided to do so after much deliberation. From the opening title you can see that it concerns a book known to a number of you. I find myself in the curious position of coming under attack for simply doing my job in order to benefit others; as the saying goes, "no good deed goes unpunished!".
How this arose is that I write book reviews specialising in a variety of non-fiction, technical topics on a professional basis as circumstances permit. My reviews provide an invaluable service to prospective purchasers considering whether or not to spend their hard-earned money on a particular book especially in an era where increasingly fewer books are purchased in traditional 'bricks-and-mortar' bookshops and more and more are bought on-line.
I have no commercial allegiances to any publisher and certainly to no author consequently my review provides a completely independent and unbiased appraisal of any one particular book's merits, rare in an age where so many on-line reviews bear the hallmarks of having been mass-produced, cookie-cutter fashion- clearly fake and no doubt perpetrated by those who stand to gain most from the deception.
I was recently commissioned by a significant publisher to write a review of the "Secret Horsepower Race". I agreed to undertake this task because my curiosity had been piqued by the author's rather voluminous self-generated publicity, almost impossible to escape for those who use this forum as much of it was paraded here.
As a reviewer I can tell you that over-hyping an as-yet unavailable book to snare significant pre-sales much less the purchaser being able to gain a credible advanced opinion due to the unavailability of an independent review is an early bad sign. Suffice to say, my B.S. detector was going "Beep", "Beep", "Beep"! Nevertheless I set my reservations aside and methodically went about my task. For those of you who have never reviewed a book please be aware that it involves more than just merely reading the book. You have to approach the task with the same clinical methodology as would a forensic investigator.
A simple rule-of-thumb applies; think first of the principal reason why you would buy a non-fiction technical book? Pretty simple really; to be educated and to have your questions answered. If you struggle to the end of the book and you find that you have more questions than answers then the book has 'failed'.
After wading through the 460 pages of this book that's exactly how my journey ended. Time to pop the bonnet and determine what went wrong. The long trek was an underwhelming experience and the book did not review well but I hasten to add, there were positives to report but overall these were by far outnumbered by the many, many negatives. The essential yardstick I used to determine how it measured up were twofold; primarily the author's own self-declared, inclusive mission statement, I.e. the story of piston aero-engine development for fighters on the Western front - an inclusive statement (something the Douglas cheer-leader squad seem to have conveniently parked in their (one-eyed!) blind-spot in the midst of their frenzied excitement) and secondarily, the many precedents he set when departing from this objective - as he so often did!
It is appropriate at this point that you should read the attachments to get the gist of what prompted me to write this post - so far in my career, a unique 'first' prompted by my rightful intention to defend against this author's rather shallow attempt to impugn my reputation and undermine my scrupulous work to reveal some inconvenient truths about his book and subsequently, the insights revealed by the message exchange (referred to above) displaying the low-ball, and rather amateurishly clumsy bully-boy, push-and-shove tactics in a desperate act that he hopes will snuff out and suffocate a dissenting naysayer that won't play along with the rest of the orchestra. An essential element in my reluctance is that any 'controversy" inadvertently creates 'buzz' around his book serving to draw attention to it which unfortunately, is the price I have to pay in attempting to fend off Douglas's sipid 'attack'. Ordinarily, Douglas would just melt into the background like any other author whose book I have reviewed but I have to say, his somewhat creepy - bordering on the obsessive - pursuit of a reviewer's critical commentary is, on a certain level, highly disturbing.
I am stymied in my ability to fully defend myself in the current fracas as I am thoroughly compromised by the necessity for non-disclosure and the contractual commitments I am obligated to uphold as the review article proceeds through the publishing process. But never mind because as an ethical principle, book reviewers are not beholden to the manipulations and ministrations of a disgruntled author consequently must maintain a healthy detachment. Book reviewers simply don't engage in discussions with authors, the sole exception being those situations where the author is also the publisher and even then it is only brief and does not involve the review process itself. Douglas seems to be acting under the arrogant delusion that he imagines he has some right to 'have a say' in or else, exert some sort of controlling influence over what a reviewer can write or indeed, even allowed to think. He mistakenly seems to think that I have some sort of obligation to him as if I am expected to put his name at the top of his imaginary 'mailing-list' to keep him up-to-date - laughable! He is owed NOTHING and will be informed of NOTHING.
The review of his book will appear whenever it does and even I will often find out about it no earlier than when any other reader gets to see it in print, editors don't usually put article submitters on THEIR mailing-list either (O.K. so long as I am on the payment cheque mailing list!). Whilst I am constrained in what I can say in support of my many criticisms of his book due to the strictures under which I have to operate fortunately (if you can call it that!) there were so many problematical issues with his book that in order to keep my review to a sensible length I reluctantly had to leave many on the editorial cutting-room floor so I won't be in breach of my obligations meaning I am at liberty to provide examples to illustrate a few of the book's many shortcomings and thus vindicate my critical judgement of it.

It became painfully obvious that the most significant and glaring omission from this book and one I agonised over as although it would have been a vital addition to the review I knew that if I had included it, it would have exploded like a hand grenade and the review would have become impossibly long so I reluctantly had to withhold it. I was stunned into head-shaking dis-belief to discover that a book that purports top be about aero-engine horsepower could commit the unforgiveable travesty of omitting any description of the supercharger boost control system; "Yes, that's right", NOWHERE in this supposedly authoritative book will you find a single text description (N.B. the bare sentence, "a barometric pressure cell controls the drive gear-change" qualifies only as a 'mention' and definitely NOT a description) of any of the A.B.C. systems used on any of the aero-engines used by either Allied or Axis air arms. An aero-engine comprises all manner of 'systems'; the ignition system, the lubrication system, the cooling system, etc, etc but the automatic boost control system is King-of-the-Heap, it is the essential key that un-locks the power of the Beast, the very power this book is supposed to be about - what sort of 'authority' is that?? Yet contradictorily, any form of engine-boosting dependant on the injection of a fluid e.g. GM50 or NOx Douglas does a fairly good job of explaining in great detail. You have to pinch yourself and remind yourself for a moment that he tells us he is a mechanical engineer having worked in Formula 1 for MERCEDES. I also am a mechanical engineer, I design and build engines as do most of my friends and in all my life I have yet to encounter (until now!) an M.E. who has a phobic reluctance to describe a few gear-wheels, levers, springs and bellows although I'm sure there will be more than a few readers of his book who will be wondering if this is some sort of surprise 'secret' he's holding over for volume 2! In fact, the only reference that comes even part-way close is the diagram of the KommandoGerat appearing on page 158, which appears to be extracted from the BMW manual. Great, I'm salivating at the revelations to flow but with hunger pangs gnawing I have to crunch down on empty disappointment instead - that's right, in spite of that brief glimmer of hope, nowhere in the entire book in spite of several shallow references is there any accompanying text that describes how it ACTUALLY works, Nada, NOTHING! But that's not all, JUNKERS were developing their own version as were ALLISON and BRISTOL while Daimler-Benz set-up there engine controls to mimic an integrated engine management system - Come on! this is exactly the sort of stuff I expect to learn from a book that makes the bold claims it does. I want to know, so where is it?? Credibility down the crapper!
Then we turn specifically to turbocharger automatic boost control systems. Douglas makes a studied point of lambasting the Americans for failing to develop an A.B.C. system for their turbocharger installations, in the P-38 Lightning, for example. He devotes acres of page space to chastising Allison and castigating them for this seeming blunder whilst on the other side of the ledger he lauds high praise on the Germans for their turbocharger development and in spite of the many pages he expends commendably describing these experimental projects nowhere - that's right, NOWHERE - will you find a single description nor even veiled reference to the turbocharger A.B.C. the Germans employed. Nor for that matter is there any comprehensive description of British turbocharger research. How else are you meant to interpret that blatant disparity? On the one hand Douglas slaps down the Americans with a Red 'FAIL' card for committing their egregious sin whilst simultaneously using his 'God-level clearance' to confer upon himself a Green 'PASS' card to absolve himself from any obligation to his readers to properly inform them of all the technical details of the German turbocharger A.B.C. set-up they should have every right to expect to find in his book. Go figure!
One final example; the ROLLS ROYCE Griffon. A highly important and hugely significant wartime British fighter powerplant yet in this book it is only described sparingly, at best. There is little development history or in-depth technical discussion of its many features. Directly contrast that with the still-born white elephant, the BMW803 (only ever intended to be a bomber engine, I hasten to add) which the author lavishly describes in great detail. Try wrapping your head around that contradiction!

So by now I imagine you're all muttering "yeah, yeah, so really, what's it got to do with this forum?" ....and that's an excellent question, because the answer is: EVERYTHING!
....here's why: in the lead-up to releasing his book, Douglas used this forum and others to shamelessly promote his book for purely selfish pecuniary gain and to garner a good level of advanced orders without anyone ever being able to read a truly independent review of his book. All anyone ever got to hear was the hyped-up drone of marketing spiel. A responsible author would have made copies available to professional reviewers for appraisal whilst keeping his mouth shut. That just didn't happen; instead, all anyone ever got was marketing 'spin'. This raises a number of serious business-ethical and moral issues. Stop to consider that these days increasingly fewer specialist non-fiction technical books are sold from traditional 'bricks-and-mortar' retail bookshops with most such purchases being made online through a variety of vendors who generate most of there business via this platform. That means that prospective purchasers are entirely reliant on access to unbiased online reviews to guide there purchasing decision - another increasingly rare commodity these days I'm afraid! What possible trust can you place in these so-called 'reviews' when they all suspiciously sound like every 'reviewer' is singing from the same hymn book, some even parrotting the same hyped-up phrases? Utterly worthless! ...and that is the role of people like me who publish in reputable magazines and who owe no allegiance to anyone other than the truth - as they say, warts and all, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
And to add a further layer of complication to your deliberations many of you may not know, but there are at least two other members of this forum who also are authors and, insofar as I know neither have stooped so low as to use this forum to promote their books or pitch for business. In that respect, they have acted with complete integrity - I can only surmise, on the basis that if their work was good enough it'll sell on its own merits and boy, were they ever right! I have had the great privilege of reading several of their most excellent books written by these two gentlemen and moreover, written a book review of each, one of which has already been published (and "No" I won't be telling you where it appeared as to do so would ultimately lead to their identity being revealed and their privacy breached; they will already know who they are I suspect). Hopefully it will result in an uptake in the sale of their book to incentivise them to continue producing the excellent works we all so love to read.
I don't doubt for a moment that Douglas will quickly pounce on this post, imploring the moderators to take it down before the inconvenient truth 'hits the fan' so in that sense I guess it's a fair test of whether there is any regard for principles of freedom of speech. If we assiduously go about crushing every dissenting view just because it differs from your own then what sort of society do you expect to find yourself living in at the end? As you yourself can see from the attachments, Douglas is desperate to mute my perfectly reasonable and entirely justified criticism in order to preserve his own self-created 'status quo' - don't 'rock the boat' and keep pedalling the marketing-hype bandwagon. Sorry pal, but my allegiance is to the majority of prospective readers who seek to by-pass the brainwashing in pursuit of the plain un-varnished truth so I won't be applying for citizenship in your little private fiefdom. I suppose I must allow for the possibility that Douglas may instead go over their heads; I muse at the thought of him banging off a desperate begging letter to the United Nations, imploring the General Council to pass a resolution banning me from the internet! Good luck with that....!! So far the 'slings and arrows' he's directed at me amount to as much intimidation as one might might expect from being savagely mauled by a belligerent yapping Chihuahua - I live in trembling fear awaiting the 3a.m. knock-at-the-door from his 'Dogs of Law'! :eek:
As for me, I'm not really intending to engage in any discussion. I think I've said enough. I set out to protect my integrity and to champion some basic principles, not least of which, the right to dissent and the right to freely express it. Hopefully I've succeeded.
 

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Rather an unusual post, this one. I'm actually quite reluctant to present this issue in an open public forum but have decided to do so after much deliberation. From the opening title you can see that it concerns a book known to a number of you. I find myself in the curious position of coming under attack for simply doing my job in order to benefit others; as the saying goes, "no good deed goes unpunished!".
How this arose is that I write book reviews specialising in a variety of non-fiction, technical topics on a professional basis as circumstances permit. My reviews provide an invaluable service to prospective purchasers considering whether or not to spend their hard-earned money on a particular book especially in an era where increasingly fewer books are purchased in traditional 'bricks-and-mortar' bookshops and more and more are bought on-line.
I have no commercial allegiances to any publisher and certainly to no author consequently my review provides a completely independent and unbiased appraisal of any one particular book's merits, rare in an age where so many on-line reviews bear the hallmarks of having been mass-produced, cookie-cutter fashion- clearly fake and no doubt perpetrated by those who stand to gain most from the deception.
I was recently commissioned by a significant publisher to write a review of the "Secret Horsepower Race". I agreed to undertake this task because my curiosity had been piqued by the author's rather voluminous self-generated publicity, almost impossible to escape for those who use this forum as much of it was paraded here.
As a reviewer I can tell you that over-hyping an as-yet unavailable book to snare significant pre-sales much less the purchaser being able to gain a credible advanced opinion due to the unavailability of an independent review is an early bad sign. Suffice to say, my B.S. detector was going "Beep", "Beep", "Beep"! Nevertheless I set my reservations aside and methodically went about my task. For those of you who have never reviewed a book please be aware that it involves more than just merely reading the book. You have to approach the task with the same clinical methodology as would a forensic investigator.
A simple rule-of-thumb applies; think first of the principal reason why you would buy a non-fiction technical book? Pretty simple really; to be educated and to have your questions answered. If you struggle to the end of the book and you find that you have more questions than answers then the book has 'failed'.
After wading through the 460 pages of this book that's exactly how my journey ended. Time to pop the bonnet and determine what went wrong. The long trek was an underwhelming experience and the book did not review well but I hasten to add, there were positives to report but overall these were by far outnumbered by the many, many negatives. The essential yardstick I used to determine how it measured up were twofold; primarily the author's own self-declared, inclusive mission statement, I.e. the story of piston aero-engine development for fighters on the Western front - an inclusive statement (something the Douglas cheer-leader squad seem to have conveniently parked in their (one-eyed!) blind-spot in the midst of their frenzied excitement) and secondarily, the many precedents he set when departing from this objective - as he so often did!
It is appropriate at this point that you should read the attachments to get the gist of what prompted me to write this post - so far in my career, a unique 'first' prompted by my rightful intention to defend against this author's rather shallow attempt to impugn my reputation and undermine my scrupulous work to reveal some inconvenient truths about his book and subsequently, the insights revealed by the message exchange (referred to above) displaying the low-ball, and rather amateurishly clumsy bully-boy, push-and-shove tactics in a desperate act that he hopes will snuff out and suffocate a dissenting naysayer that won't play along with the rest of the orchestra. An essential element in my reluctance is that any 'controversy" inadvertently creates 'buzz' around his book serving to draw attention to it which unfortunately, is the price I have to pay in attempting to fend off Douglas's sipid 'attack'. Ordinarily, Douglas would just melt into the background like any other author whose book I have reviewed but I have to say, his somewhat creepy - bordering on the obsessive - pursuit of a reviewer's critical commentary is, on a certain level, highly disturbing.
I am stymied in my ability to fully defend myself in the current fracas as I am thoroughly compromised by the necessity for non-disclosure and the contractual commitments I am obligated to uphold as the review article proceeds through the publishing process. But never mind because as an ethical principle, book reviewers are not beholden to the manipulations and ministrations of a disgruntled author consequently must maintain a healthy detachment. Book reviewers simply don't engage in discussions with authors, the sole exception being those situations where the author is also the publisher and even then it is only brief and does not involve the review process itself. Douglas seems to be acting under the arrogant delusion that he imagines he has some right to 'have a say' in or else, exert some sort of controlling influence over what a reviewer can write or indeed, even allowed to think. He mistakenly seems to think that I have some sort of obligation to him as if I am expected to put his name at the top of his imaginary 'mailing-list' to keep him up-to-date - laughable! He is owed NOTHING and will be informed of NOTHING.
The review of his book will appear whenever it does and even I will often find out about it no earlier than when any other reader gets to see it in print, editors don't usually put article submitters on THEIR mailing-list either (O.K. so long as I am on the payment cheque mailing list!). Whilst I am constrained in what I can say in support of my many criticisms of his book due to the strictures under which I have to operate fortunately (if you can call it that!) there were so many problematical issues with his book that in order to keep my review to a sensible length I reluctantly had to leave many on the editorial cutting-room floor so I won't be in breach of my obligations meaning I am at liberty to provide examples to illustrate a few of the book's many shortcomings and thus vindicate my critical judgement of it.

It became painfully obvious that the most significant and glaring omission from this book and one I agonised over as although it would have been a vital addition to the review I knew that if I had included it, it would have exploded like a hand grenade and the review would have become impossibly long so I reluctantly had to withhold it. I was stunned into head-shaking dis-belief to discover that a book that purports top be about aero-engine horsepower could commit the unforgiveable travesty of omitting any description of the supercharger boost control system; "Yes, that's right", NOWHERE in this supposedly authoritative book will you find a single text description (N.B. the bare sentence, "a barometric pressure cell controls the drive gear-change" qualifies only as a 'mention' and definitely NOT a description) of any of the A.B.C. systems used on any of the aero-engines used by either Allied or Axis air arms. An aero-engine comprises all manner of 'systems'; the ignition system, the lubrication system, the cooling system, etc, etc but the automatic boost control system is King-of-the-Heap, it is the essential key that un-locks the power of the Beast, the very power this book is supposed to be about - what sort of 'authority' is that?? Yet contradictorily, any form of engine-boosting dependant on the injection of a fluid e.g. GM50 or NOx Douglas does a fairly good job of explaining in great detail. You have to pinch yourself and remind yourself for a moment that he tells us he is a mechanical engineer having worked in Formula 1 for MERCEDES. I also am a mechanical engineer, I design and build engines as do most of my friends and in all my life I have yet to encounter (until now!) an M.E. who has a phobic reluctance to describe a few gear-wheels, levers, springs and bellows although I'm sure there will be more than a few readers of his book who will be wondering if this is some sort of surprise 'secret' he's holding over for volume 2! In fact, the only reference that comes even part-way close is the diagram of the KommandoGerat appearing on page 158, which appears to be extracted from the BMW manual. Great, I'm salivating at the revelations to flow but with hunger pangs gnawing I have to crunch down on empty disappointment instead - that's right, in spite of that brief glimmer of hope, nowhere in the entire book in spite of several shallow references is there any accompanying text that describes how it ACTUALLY works, Nada, NOTHING! But that's not all, JUNKERS were developing their own version as were ALLISON and BRISTOL while Daimler-Benz set-up there engine controls to mimic an integrated engine management system - Come on! this is exactly the sort of stuff I expect to learn from a book that makes the bold claims it does. I want to know, so where is it?? Credibility down the crapper!
Then we turn specifically to turbocharger automatic boost control systems. Douglas makes a studied point of lambasting the Americans for failing to develop an A.B.C. system for their turbocharger installations, in the P-38 Lightning, for example. He devotes acres of page space to chastising Allison and castigating them for this seeming blunder whilst on the other side of the ledger he lauds high praise on the Germans for their turbocharger development and in spite of the many pages he expends commendably describing these experimental projects nowhere - that's right, NOWHERE - will you find a single description nor even veiled reference to the turbocharger A.B.C. the Germans employed. Nor for that matter is there any comprehensive description of British turbocharger research. How else are you meant to interpret that blatant disparity? On the one hand Douglas slaps down the Americans with a Red 'FAIL' card for committing their egregious sin whilst simultaneously using his 'God-level clearance' to confer upon himself a Green 'PASS' card to absolve himself from any obligation to his readers to properly inform them of all the technical details of the German turbocharger A.B.C. set-up they should have every right to expect to find in his book. Go figure!
One final example; the ROLLS ROYCE Griffon. A highly important and hugely significant wartime British fighter powerplant yet in this book it is only described sparingly, at best. There is little development history or in-depth technical discussion of its many features. Directly contrast that with the still-born white elephant, the BMW803 (only ever intended to be a bomber engine, I hasten to add) which the author lavishly describes in great detail. Try wrapping your head around that contradiction!

So by now I imagine you're all muttering "yeah, yeah, so really, what's it got to do with this forum?" ....and that's an excellent question, because the answer is: EVERYTHING!
....here's why: in the lead-up to releasing his book, Douglas used this forum and others to shamelessly promote his book for purely selfish pecuniary gain and to garner a good level of advanced orders without anyone ever being able to read a truly independent review of his book. All anyone ever got to hear was the hyped-up drone of marketing spiel. A responsible author would have made copies available to professional reviewers for appraisal whilst keeping his mouth shut. That just didn't happen; instead, all anyone ever got was marketing 'spin'. This raises a number of serious business-ethical and moral issues. Stop to consider that these days increasingly fewer specialist non-fiction technical books are sold from traditional 'bricks-and-mortar' retail bookshops with most such purchases being made online through a variety of vendors who generate most of there business via this platform. That means that prospective purchasers are entirely reliant on access to unbiased online reviews to guide there purchasing decision - another increasingly rare commodity these days I'm afraid! What possible trust can you place in these so-called 'reviews' when they all suspiciously sound like every 'reviewer' is singing from the same hymn book, some even parrotting the same hyped-up phrases? Utterly worthless! ...and that is the role of people like me who publish in reputable magazines and who owe no allegiance to anyone other than the truth - as they say, warts and all, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
And to add a further layer of complication to your deliberations many of you may not know, but there are at least two other members of this forum who also are authors and, insofar as I know neither have stooped so low as to use this forum to promote their books or pitch for business. In that respect, they have acted with complete integrity - I can only surmise, on the basis that if their work was good enough it'll sell on its own merits and boy, were they ever right! I have had the great privilege of reading several of their most excellent books written by these two gentlemen and moreover, written a book review of each, one of which has already been published (and "No" I won't be telling you where it appeared as to do so would ultimately lead to their identity being revealed and their privacy breached; they will already know who they are I suspect). Hopefully it will result in an uptake in the sale of their book to incentivise them to continue producing the excellent works we all so love to read.
I don't doubt for a moment that Douglas will quickly pounce on this post, imploring the moderators to take it down before the inconvenient truth 'hits the fan' so in that sense I guess it's a fair test of whether there is any regard for principles of freedom of speech. If we assiduously go about crushing every dissenting view just because it differs from your own then what sort of society do you expect to find yourself living in at the end? As you yourself can see from the attachments, Douglas is desperate to mute my perfectly reasonable and entirely justified criticism in order to preserve his own self-created 'status quo' - don't 'rock the boat' and keep pedalling the marketing-hype bandwagon. Sorry pal, but my allegiance is to the majority of prospective readers who seek to by-pass the brainwashing in pursuit of the plain un-varnished truth so I won't be applying for citizenship in your little private fiefdom. I suppose I must allow for the possibility that Douglas may instead go over their heads; I muse at the thought of him banging off a desperate begging letter to the United Nations, imploring the General Council to pass a resolution banning me from the internet! Good luck with that....!! So far the 'slings and arrows' he's directed at me amount to as much intimidation as one might might expect from being savagely mauled by a belligerent yapping Chihuahua - I live in trembling fear awaiting the 3a.m. knock-at-the-door from his 'Dogs of Law'! :eek:
As for me, I'm not really intending to engage in any discussion. I think I've said enough. I set out to protect my integrity and to champion some basic principles, not least of which, the right to dissent and the right to freely express it. Hopefully I've succeeded.
Well I am glad you got that off your chest, whatever it was. It seems to me you are using this forum to buff up your credentials as a book reviewer.
 
X xylstra that's quite a story you wrote here. I cannot judge if your assessment of the book is correct or not, as I haven't read the book.

However, what I don't like is two things:

First of all, much of your "review" here seems like a personal attack on the author and forum member, more than an unbiased review.

Second the following quote:

imploring the moderators to take it down before the inconvenient truth 'hits the fan' so in that sense I guess it's a fair test of whether there is any regard for principles of freedom of speech
Which tries to set things up so you can shout that you are unfairly treated by us if the moderators step in to stop your personal feud with the author. This is being a bad sport and doesn't score you points.

So I would be much obliged if you took your fight with Douglas elsewhere.

And no, he did not contact us as you seem to imply.

I'll discuss with the rest of the team if we open up this thread again and if you have anything to complain or need explanations, you can do so by the contact form or a pm to me or someone else of the moderator team.
 
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