More journalist than combatant, the observations of this young officer were written as the desert war was in full swing and published before it ended. As expected they fully capture his feelings of exhilaration at the wide open expanses of the desert and of his admiration for the pilots whose deeds he documented, but the undercurrent of anxiety is explained by being written at a time when the eventual outcome was by no means certain.
(Clive Yelf - bwl 54 November 2009 ) |
