I read that in about 1972 when I was about 14. Enjoyed it. I was absorbing lots of RAF stuff in that period.
This is the cover I had:
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Interesting and intriguing… I’ll look for it. Thanks.
I read it many years ago in Italian when it was published in this successful - and still in existence - editorial series:
Now I want to read the original.
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It is not the first time I am reading it. I decided to own the book and found a new copy from the first print of 1951. It even has one of these attached cotton book marks. It is a pleasure to handle a book so meticulously made.
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Although I use the Kindle in conjunction with Alexa and Audible I still hanker sometimes for a real book. Like cds they are inexpensive from Wob. When read they are always welcome at the Hospice shop.
I suppose it’s my vinyl versus streaming argument.
Fred Vargas… I will restart the Adamsberg saga.
Kutscher… When I was given free Sky for a period I watched Babylon Berlin and enjoyed the interwar Berlin colour.
Gregory… I am upto date with Andrew Taylor’s Marwood/Hakesby Restoration tales so thought another series based around Charles II would help fill out the period.
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A House Called Tomorrow
Fifty Years of Poetry
Cooper Canyon Press
Currently reading poetry from a local press located up in Port Townsend, Washington. A small press that I have enjoyed over the years with the authors/books they have published. They include a few Pulitzer Prize winners, W. S Merwin (The Shadow of Sirus), Ted Koozer (Delights & Shadows) and Jericho Brown (The Tradition), along with several National Book Award authors.
Not everyones cup of tea but I do enjoy poetry…
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A Perfect Spy by John Le Carre
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My current book at bedtime being read to me as an audible book. 12 hours long and chopped up
Into 1 hour long chapters but I am normally in the land of nod within half an hour.
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NB Source : the current edition of The New Yorker