Whispering Death

by Lee Heide

Book Overview

An account of the air war in the Mediterranean by a navigator flying Beaufort and Beaufighter aircraft with the Royal Air Force. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1552123871
• ISBN13: 9781552123874
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A lively account

I purchased this book in the hope of finding a slant on the second Siege of Malta different from the many other accounts of this famous action. In this regard I was disappointed for although the author spent some time there, his literary contribution adds little to that already published. Lee Heide's commendable involvements with other aspects of The War make more interesting reading but are a little superficial in their recounting and would benefit from more flesh on the bones. There are irritating instances of inattentive editing; anachronisms such as Land Rovers and cassette tapes in West Africa in 1942(!) and there is some padding taken from what obviously have been tourist guides but it is an interesting perspective on aspects of wartime aërial operations outside the Northern European theatre and a salutory reminder of the debt Britain has to the Dominions and the sacrifices made in her defence by The Commonwealth.