Older books-Opinions please!

[Laurent Rizzotti]

Well "Mediterranean Air War" is really showing its age: it is a short history of the RAF in Med with about one hundred pictures. Was probably the best available at the time, but far more has been written since then.

"Malta the Hurricane Years" is a classic. As Ruy said the latter books from Brian Cull will give you more detailled data and pilot's testimonies but on the whole the book is still very useful. The RAF and Italian parts are still good, the German ones is as far as I know the one that is the most lacking compared to what we have access today (thanks to archives open in the meantine and of Internet that is enabling the diffusion of this data). "Malta: the Spifire Year" that was written some time later is more detailled and very interesting too.

Don't know the others but it seems to me that several are autobiographies and these are unvaluable, even if they were written half-a-century ago.