Mr Christopher Shore's new project

[Frank Olynyk]

I checked with Chris about progress on the new Mediteranean volumes, and I can give the following information. Work continues on volume 1; the manuscript is about half finished (it will go to about mid January 1942). The work has been slowed by the 2TAF series, of which volume four should be published later this year; by his completion of Rod Smith's autobiography (Spitfire Smiths) due out from Grub Street "real soon now"; and by a recent (and unexpected) commission to write a history of the Fleet Air Arm (he docent's at the FAA Museum regularly).

I hesitate to give his estimate for turning in the manuscript of volume one, so suffice it to say "sometime in 2009". I would remind those anxiously looking forward to the book that Chris recently turned 70, and feels that he should be allowed to work at his pace, not the pace of our desires.

Enjoy!

Frank.