I’m currently reading this, which was a Christmas present from my partner. Not only that, but it was bought from a local independent bookshop and signed and dedicated by the author, who lives nearby. Actually, I saw him at the Remembrance Day service in town in November but didn’t get a chance to speak to him. Maybe next time.
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I’m really enjoying his accounts of flying at Red Flag and other NATO training exercises, and finding out how the Royal Navy's Harrier aircraft got on against more capable opposition in simulated combat (some days better than others). There’s plenty of humour, plenty of salty language and plenty of rude comments directed at the RAF (the Royal Air Force being friendly rivals to the RN Fleet Air Arm).
Later in the book Commander Tremelling gets sent into action in Afghanistan, and then to America to fly F-18s as part of an exchange program with US Navy, but I haven’t got those bits yet.
-R