Ian Goodhope Colvin (1912–1975)

This story of Leslie Howard and the fate of those on Flight 777 back in 1942 is interesting but hard to follow. It was easy to follow Howard as well as Churchill since I was familiar with these individuals. However, the others in the story with whom I was not familiar made those portions of the book difficult to follow. I felt that the author should have provided a glossary of those involved with a short description of their role to make it easier to tell one person from another. Otherwise, the author did do quite a bit of research to follow down the leads as to the reasoning behind the shooting down of this plane, including tracking down Nazi fliers that may have been involved. The book was originally published in 1957 and this is a new publication with a postscript from the original book. I would have liked to have known if anyone has ever done any dives in the Bay of Biscay to see if the plane wreckage could be discovered.… (meer)