The magazine seizes the moment with a bunch of spectacular full colour art of Lancaster bombers and Sopwith Camel fighters and all the rest.
Two well told Second World War stories, both improved by blending in the interest of descendants's pursuit of knowledge about the exploits of their family members.
So the air force's grim Battle of Berlin experiences is focussed on one Joe Halloran, a Lancaster bomb-aimer but otherwise nobody distinguished or famous. But there is detail of his experience, thanks to his daughter Patsy's search for it, and it brings the story home very well.
Something similar in the story of Flight Sergeant Robert Spence, whose bomber was shot down over the Libyan desert -- and who proceeded to walk several hundred kilometers across the desert back to Egypt. Here too the story includes his penpal back home and the info she received about his exploits. She didn't even marry him in the end, but it's make a good article.
Also Timothy Andrews Sayle on NATO's seventy-fifty anniversary.v Book reviews, historic places, much more.
And, be still my heart, TWO letters responding to "Fuelling Anger" my essay on east-west tensions in Canada from the December-January issue. I do try to write possibly provocative stories from time to time: the monarchy, the senate, "worst Canadians." Usual response: crickets.
