I also just read it, great story and smiled at the irony of the plane losing an engine that was taking him to the UK, also smiled at the British stiff upper lip, quote
Dr Warren recalled: "I said, 'Chaps, we seem to have lost a donk - does anyone want to go back?' But we'd come from Tunisia and it was about 45 degrees overnight. We didn't want to go back to that hellhole."
They decided they could make it if they ploughed on.