By
all means, get the book and read (and re-read) from cover to cover.
The first publication was in 1967, which is just when I read it for the first time.
I wondered...could the very early jet transports be as
difficult to fly (accurately) as Davies indicated?
Well, I found out first hand just a couple of years later that...yes, they could.
IMHO, the
very best book on the subject of swept-wing jet transport flying.
Davies got it right...absolutely.