Geachte Herr Spoden,
Thank you Peter, for replying so promptly to my post ! Your message mentioned the Lord - I too am grateful to the Almighty that you both survived. Otherwise, I would not be here to write to you today. I will proudly forward your kind thoughts to my father Oxby (senior) later this evening - I know he will be genuinely delighted, tickled pink in fact - that after 60 something years, we can consider Herr Spoden - a former
'Enemy in the Dark' now as a personal friend !! Incidently, you may be interested to know, Doug asked me about a year or so ago to assist him in assembling recollections of
his night-time adventures (which is another reason why I was so interested, and impressed by
your work). Doug's book is now well advanced, and we're onto draft III. There are one or two snags. Firstly, we have a couple of candidates for the book's title - but it is not as yet agreed.
If I have my way, (which is doubtful) it would be called
'Nightfighter Navigator' which describes exactly what the book's about. More likely scenario is that Doug will have
his way (ok, I guess it's
his story after all !) - so it will probably end up being called
'Back Seat Driver' - which ok, perhaps does describe how he saw his job -
as the back-seat Navigator half of the nightfighter team. Anyway, aside of the heated discussion over the book title (!!) - we are in dire need of a reviewer -
someone who knows the nightfighter game to review and comment on the draft in due course. I can think of no-one better qualified than yourself.
Who better than a fellow nightfighter - and remarkably, someone who was fighting on the other side ??
Would it be improper of me to enquire Sir, if you might be interested ?
Kind regards,
Richard Oxby
richard.oxby@btinternet.com