Bomber Squadron

Sidney Allinson is a Victoria-based communications consultant, Canadian
news correspondent for Britain’s The Army Quarterly and Defence, and
the author of Military Archives: International Directory of Military
Publications and The Bantams: The Untold St

This novel about the experiences of the Royal Canadian Air Force Bombers
during World War II comes across as a fictionalization of actual events.
There is a curious flatness to the characters, who seem not so much
created as reported. Everett nevertheless succeeds in conveying the feel
of day-to-day life on a wartime air station. His portrayal of the
Canadian airmen is affectionate but clear-eyed. It is disconcerting to
see a photograph of a Blenheim aircraft on the front cover of a book
mainly about Halifax bombers.