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Old 11th February 2009, 11:25
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Re: Looking for opinions on following books

Hello Venge1
I agree with you.
I just got through the Tony Johsson’s Dancing in the Skies and really liked it, a good read and seemed to be very honest and true. I read it side by side memories of one Finnish ace, who forgets or “forgets” to mention some embarrassing events of his career. Of course I knew the career of the Finnish ace beforehand and on the other hand almost nothing on Jonsson’s career but Tony tells numerous errors he made, so my impression is that his memories are honest.

Besides some minor complains that usually come into mind while reading memoirs I have only a couple complains, firstly he didn’t give dates of many of his combats, which is a pity, because I like to cross-check events and secondly in his forewords he tells that he had left away parts of his descriptions of his early life on Iceland from the English edition. Because IMHO Iceland is very interesting place (have been there once) I’d have like to read more on life there in 30s.
So the book is well worth of having.

Juha
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