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26 Nov, 2015
Well written and well produced A recommended buy
This book is a general history of the wartime period covering both surface and underground undertakings and contains a mixture of "hard" history and personal reminiscence (Although a few of the reminiscences veer off topic they are interesting in themselves). The scope also includes some information on London Transports assistance to other transport undertakings. conversions for civil defence purposes and also the clubmobiles produced for the US forces.
I purchased this book to give me some general background for a specific project (which in historical terms lies outside my own specialist area in the history of WW2)and thus to appear not too much of an idiot with the real specialists in the history of London Transport I consider it has also given me pointers towards various avenues for further research and also raises some very interesting historical questions within this subject.
It is not a definitive highly detailed history and the author does not pretend it to be. the author is one of the specialists, is authoritative, clearly knows his subject well and has the ability to write in a clear and concise manner. (not a given with books on wartime history) The book is illustrated with well chosen photos with informative captions (only one of which I have seen before).
In summary the book does exactly what it says on the cover and does it well.
05 May, 2023
Adds to the Model
Eastern Europe I believe harnessed this technology to model making. It provides detail parts for a 1/35 model of the "Rolls Royce" of British WW2 heavy trucks. The brass photo etch adds components which are either vey difficult to produce in plastic to any scale or are impossible to produce. The set meets the requirements. It provides some components which can be used on model of an R100 (the purpose I bought it for) . I do not know enough about the TCRU 20 or 30 to comment on its use with this model.
04 Jun, 2021
Good reading on a controversial subject
A good and well written book on what is now a controversial subject. Ferguson is up front on his ideological position on the subject and thus produces a reasonable general survey. He is not intending to write a specific and specialised account aimed at the specialist historian. It is primarily a general survey aimed at people interested in the subject. It avoids the wilder shores of the ideological debate which now bedevils debate on this subject. The recommendation of 4 stars given above is slightly above where I would place the book but the book is certainly considerably better than the three star rating in the above categorisation. Really it is what I expected given the previous material of his I have read and his unfortunately now ended column in the Sunday Times. The ideologues on the history of the British Empire will I suspect dislike it and that in itself is a recommendation. (also the content of a history book in my view can never be appropriately described as "compelling" and thus the answer given above.