24 OCTOBER 1941, Page 20

THE author of this short book was a pilot in

No. 1 Squadron, which was one of the two original Hurricane Squadrons of the Air Component in France. The book is based on a diary which he kept from September, 1939, to June, 1940, when the Squadron returned to England with 155 confirmed .victories to its credit, for the loss of three pilots missing. It is a document of the first interest, admirably written, vivid in its detail, and thrilling in its narrative. For the picture which it gives of the work of our fighters during the campaign which opened on May loth, it is worth all that has been written on the subject by war-corre- spondents put together ; as a war-diary it is, so far as this war is concerned, unique.