No Place for Chivalry
RAF Night Fighters Defend the East of England Against the German Air Force in Two World Wars
Alastair Goodrum, Grub Street, 224 pages, hardback
ISBN 1-904943-22-5
Reviewed by George Miller in Vol 36 No 3, Autumn 2005
The only World War I chapter in this book (which for some reason is Chapter 2), tells of the Zeppelin raids, their failure to inflict any real strategic damage and the equal failure of the RFC to shoot many of them down. There are just over three pages of photographs, and all the remaining 208 pages are devoted to World War II, tales being told in an agreeable anecdotal manner. There is nothing new in here concerning the Great War, and I feel the book is rather misnamed.