The Air VCs (VCs of the First World War)

click here for more details, find new or used items	Peter G. Cooksley Used from £19.80 Pages: 204 (Hardcover) ISBN: 075091212X Pub: Sutton Publishing Ltd Pub date: 1997-04-24 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 533564

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A DSO but not quite the ultimate award (3/3 people found this helpful)

Peter G Cooksley certainly has a great feel for his subject and revels in his detailed knowledge. The cover of this book is fantastic, one of the best I have ever seen and the subject matter,those that won the Victoria Cross during WW1 flying operations is fascinating. I have read it twice and will do so again. He has fired my thirst for more books about the VC.
His style in describing his subjects and their exploits succesfully treads the tightrope between cloying adulation and unadorned fact, whilst leaning towards the latter.
His research is clearly meticulous and has to be taken by the layman at face value, but he sometimes allows himself to put on his anorak and prove just how much he knows by introducing too much incidental and distracting minuatae.
Mostly the prose is easy to follow, but again is let down by sentances which are too long and contain too many facts, boggling the mind. Perversely there are times when the reader is expected to have a certain knowledge, leaving loose ends for those of us without his grasp of the background.
A good read about superhuman performances from our highly succesful military past, but with a little more thought given to the layman, rather than the expert, it could have been nigh on perfect.

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