Goodbye Mickey Mouse

It is a novel of memory, satisfying on every imaginable level, but truly astonishing in its recreation of a time and place through minute detail ... The only way you could know more about flying a P-51 Mustang, after reading this book, is to have flown one.

Washington Post

He writes, as usual, with authority and a superb sense of period.

Daily Telegraph

The sheer charge of the writing swept me into another world all the while I was reading, and now that piece of the past is a piece in my mind.

HRF Keating, The Times