Review: Biography “Several Notches Above Average”, Battle of Britain Memorial, Geoff Simpson FRHistS
Now “Willie” Nelson has been rescued from the shadows by Peter J Usher in a stand-out biography which budding authors and some already claiming that status would do well to study. If you have no such ambitions and are merely interested in the Battle of Britain, then you should also read this book. It is several notches above the average. …
Release: Battle of Britain Spitfire Ace, The life and loss of one of the few, Flight Lieutenant William Henry Nelson, DFC
Battle of Britain Spitfire Ace is the story of a young Canadian who in a short time, and for a brief time, mastered Britain’s most legendary war machine, the Spitfire. It is also the story of a young English woman who was for a short time his wife, and for a long time his widow, and of their son who for much of his life knew little about his father and is still learning about him. Their stories, based on their letters, diaries, and photos, unfold in richly detailed context as the setting moves from Montreal in Nelson’s youth, England in the last years of peace, the first (and largely forgotten) months of the air war against Nazi Germany, Canada during the war, and finally to post-war England.