When eighteen year-old Sergeant Les Silver and the rest of his crew arrived at the quiet airfield of Tempsford, near Bedford, none of them had any idea they would be carrying out Special Duties operations.  They had trained on four-engine Halifax bombers and assumed that once they’d finished their heavy bomber conversion course at Dishford in Yorkshire, they’d be going on bomber missions over Nazi-occupied Europe.  Read more…

Getting Started

18 September 2006
About three weeks ago I set myself this date as the day I simply had to start writing the book, so for the past fortnight it’s been a frantic scrabble to get to a stage where I feel I’m ready to go.   Read more…