

A writer with his head in the sky, if not the clouds.
Military & aviation history


Gave the first talk in a bookshop last week at Harris & Harris in the delightful if sweltering Suffolk village of Clare, which is not that far from Stradishall – which was briefly the home of the Special Duties squadron. A sold out event, and most enjoyable.
In the current edition.
Last week I was in the Cotswolds, and just had to take my cycle to the old RAF Honeybourne, now a rather ragged industrial estate. But ragged is good – it means that the bones of the former RAF base are still extant. If hangars could talk…. I had to visit it because during WW2…