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Angels and Bandits

By Brodie Curtis

Publication Date: 15th May 2022. Publisher: Westy Vistas. Page Length: 357 Pages. Genre: Historical Fiction.

The Battle of Britain rages and two young RAF pilots from very different stations in life must somehow find common ground—and stay alive.

On the eve of World War II, working-class Eddy Beane is a flight instructor in London. He successfully completes dangerous espionage missions for Air Commodore Keith Park and takes on society-girl June Stephenson as a student. Her ex-fiancé, Dudley Thane, is also a flyer, but upper-class and Cambridge-educated. When the German Luftwaffe attacks England in 1940, Eddy and Dudley end up serving in the same Spitfire squadron. Aerial combat is intense, and both men show their skills and courage, but can they set aside jealousy and class differences to become fighting brothers for the defence of Britain? 

Book Rating:

📚📚📚📚📚⭐ = A book in a million

📚📚📚📚📚 = I could not put this book down. I Highly Recommend it.

📚📚📚📚 = A really great read.

📚📚📚 = It was enjoyable.

📚📚 = It was okay.

📚 = Um...! 😕

My Review
Angels and Bandits
📚📚📚📚📚⭐ = A book in a million

There are some books that you don’t want to end because you know you’ll miss the characters once it is over. This book is one of those. 

It only takes one taste of flight for Eddy to get hooked. He went up as a passenger, but as soon as the plane touched back down, he knew he had to go back up, as a pilot. His training, and subsequent business he creates, flying back and forth to deliver parcels and the like, lead to an involvement with the RAF – he is asked to fly over enemy territory, and take pictures of their planes, as proof that the planes exist. With the Second World War about to start, it is imperative that the RAF can get the funding to build more fighter planes.

As the book progresses, Eddy finds himself inside a Spitfire, flying off with a squadron to protect Britain. It was truly fascinating to read about the RAF, especially from a pilot’s point of view. I have never read a book from the perspective of an RAF pilot before, and I learnt so much about not only how the RAF worked to maintain control of Britain’s airspaces, but also about how planes work, and how difficult it can be to fly one. 

At times, I was reminded of the film Top Gun, and I think this book would make an absolutely wonderful film. I would love to watch it on the big screen. In the meantime, though, I suppose I will have to settle for reading this book over and over, for I missed reading it as soon as I finished.

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Brodie Curtis

Raised in the Midwest, Brodie Curtis was educated as a lawyer and left the corporate world to embrace life in Colorado with his wife and two sons. 

Curtis is the author of THE FOUR BELLS, a novel of The Great War, which is the product of extensive historical research, including long walks through the fields of Flanders, where much of the book's action is set. His second novel, ANGELS AND BANDITS, takes his protagonists into The Battle of Britain. Curtis is currently working on a novel set on a Mississippi Riverboat prior to the Civil War.

A lover of history, particularly American history and the World Wars, Curtis reviews historical fiction for the Historical Novels Review and more than 100 of his published reviews and short takes on historical novels can be found on his website: brodiecurtis.com.  

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