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“... 35 days of aerial combat over the Normandy beachhead cost 20,000 casualties in aircrew members. Barrie Pitt underlines this point in the second volume of his projected trilogy on the Desert campaigns. El Alamein in particular, with its lack of open flanks and with Axis defences in great depth, constituted a killing ground comparable to the Western ...”

“... contrived as Tomorrow at Dawn, three of the other books also fall within standard categories. Barrie Pitt’s Crucible of War is a straightforward campaign book, dealing with the war against the Italians and the first battles against Rommel, in North Africa, in 1941. Two further volumes about this theatre are promised and the full set will ...”

“... Keith Waterhouse’s novel of the same name, and again it is accidentally eerie, almost like J.M. Barrie. The Gillmans have found the poems of Bowie’s grandmother and they are very similar: ‘In the land of make-believe, Children love to play ...’ Bowie sang his grandmotherly songs in a special voice, imitating Anthony Newley, an actor who used to sing ...”