Martin Middlebrook, historian, Bomber Command, Great War

[Nick Beale]

Originally Posted by Adriano Baumgartner

FALKE EINS, I humbly disagree here with you that he was a farmer rather than a Historian.

I think that Falke was just stating a fact, not a criticism: Middlebrook earned his living as a farmer, not (for example) in a university. My old boss in local government had also known him as a council member in Lincolnshire. Somehow he also found time to write excellent books that always told you what happened to individuals in a battle. I have several of them and he was a big inspiration when I embarked on writing. I recently read his book on the Schweifurt/Regensburg Mission again and found it just as impressive as I did when it first came out.