Customer Reviews
Outstanding - By: D. JTattersall, 09 May 2008 
After Burning Blue I bought this sight unseen in hardback & after this book I'll buy any war fiction he produces.
Lovely story - not just about flying - By: A. J. Sudworth, 02 Nov 2007 I reallly enjoyed this one - bags of flying action particularly over Malta & a love story to boot. It just shows that people can be affected by war in different ways - the main character here is just a lad who went to war & fought not just over Malta but with the partisans in Italy - & although he would never admit it, was scarred for life - & its takes 50 years to try & come to terms with it.
The flying action is excellent you could almost taste the dust on the airfields in Malta & the scale & desperatin of the struggle to survive
The brutality of the war in Italy is also brough to life & the happiness & horror he experiences
Well recommended
Not into WW2 stuff - By: Mad Muvva, 15 Jan 2007 I bought this book for my husband as he has an avid interest in the wars. He became engrossed & encouraged me to read it. I am glad I did. I clearly didn't read it as closely as the reader who commented on the editing; which is probably just as well because it may have spolit my enjoyment of what I consider to be a well written book. Just enough sentiment; just enough description; just enough love; just enough gore; just enough history. Beautiful & poignant.
Awesome! - By: Russell Irvine, 30 Apr 2006 I didn't think any book could better The Burning Blue by the same author but this has by a very wide margin. The historical accuracy & characterisation is amazing. I thought historians were supposed to be boring. Not in this case.
Where in The Burning Blue I liked & cared for the main characters, I loved them in this book & shed real tears on their behalf. I now feel a deep sense of loss at having parted company. What am I to do? I plan to read the author's other novels as quick as I can but beg him to write more soon.
Please, please, please!
OK but not as good as Burning Blue - By: Alan J. Penhall, 26 Apr 2006 
Alright, but it did have some major editing faults (characters changing names ... for example Chuck Cartwright became Buck for a few pages then finallly Chuck O'Neill) which did destroy my sense of story. I did report the problems to the publisher but have heard nothing yet. The plot did hold my attention & I enjoyed the flying scenes but it wasn't as good as Burning Blue.
