I was fortunate enough to buy a copy of this book from the author in person last year and he was kind enough to sign it for me. It's a great read but one might have to put it down occasionally just to ponder what one has just read, shake one's head, read that last bit again a couple of times more and then just sit there a while longer feeling somewhat gobsmacked.
He's a top bloke too. He was happy to spend some time later on, when he must have had better things to do, talking about future developments in the art of throwing aeroplanes at ships and hoping they'll stick. He was sincerely apologetic about being a few minutes late for our appointment, giving the rather cracking excuse that he'd been delayed because he'd run into someone he'd not seen in years and had been doing a bit of catching up - "Nice chap. German. I captured him in 1945".
