[Nick Beale]

I agree completely about the Rawnsley/Wright book: really worth reading.

Chris Shores' "Pictorial History of the Mediterranean Air War" ran to 3 volumes and if you want an overview of the war in that theatre or a starting point for further reading/research then it's worth reading. What you won't get are the amounts of detail that some of us go in for these days (it would hardly be possible in a series of such scope). It's very different in approach from "2 TAF" (old or new version).