Reviews for Lancaster Squadrons, 1944-45

The average rating for Lancaster Squadrons, 1944-45 based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-05-18 00:00:00 Wendy Price An excellent overview of the rise of air power and air-mindedness. Highly recommended for someone who is not a military history fanatic but wants to learn about the development of military air power. Read for UTSA course HIS 3543 History of Modern Warfare.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-03-25 00:00:00 Rick Jones An unusually literary memoir of a WWII RAF fighter pilot Here we have a unusual memoir of the wartime experiences of a RAF pilot in WWII. Not the run of the mill action packed tales of a Hun in the sun and the usual coterie of characters in the squadron. Instead a more languid tale of a long war spent in considerable discomfort. The reader is taken on a long journey along many airfields, bases, headquarters and bars and clubs and bordellos around some of the lesser known regions where the world war blazed. We get to breathe the hot desert wind, to freeze in the bone chilling desert nights, we smell the rot and sweat of the jungle. We drink too much, or too little, we see our comrades die needless and pointless deaths, we while away the boredom, we try and make sense of it all, and grow old before our time A unique and splendid read.