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I've just finished the above book. Memoirs of the New Zealander, (Sir) Patrick Gordon Taylor. It's not a book I'd heard of before a friend picked it up for me at a car boot. I'm surprised it's not part of the canon of great WW1 aviation memoirs, having, as it does, the same immediacy, intimacy and self-effacing humility as 'No Parachute'. The author flew the Sopwith Pup in No. 66 Squadron from February through July 1917 and his account gives an acute insight into the tactics and attitude of pilots flying a machine they knew to be obsolete against increasingly uneven odds. It's also a testament to the leadership of another great pilot, J. O. Andrews, a contemporary of Lanoe Hawker in No. 24 Sqn. Well worth reading if you can get your hands on it.
