(20-03-2018, 12:20 AM)Ritchie Wilson Wrote: I was at a garage sale of a very elderly British couple who were selling off most of their possessions as they were moving to a retirement home. I had bought a couple of books and as I was paying for them the man pressed a very large, very tatty paperback into my hands. It was the best book he had ever read, he said, and he didn't want it to go into the rubbish. The book was RV Jones' 'Most Secret War'. And it was a very good, eye-opening book. Jones had found it so difficult to accurately measure things such as radio frequencies during the war that he devoted his post-war career to improving measurement. I feel that this was a bit of a come-down for a man who had done so much to fend off a German victory in WWII.
Stephen's 'Building and racing my 750' and John Bolster's 'Specials' are my favourite car books. Do any GN cars still exist?
A flawed (perhaps very flawed) masterpiece is Len Deighton's 'City of Gold'. It has the best first chapter of any book I have read.