Well, with not internet for four days, I've had the opportunity to catch up with some reading.
I finished Beam Bombers #111
I then read
Amazon.co.uk: Coastal Ace: Biography of Squadron Leader Terence Malcolm Bulloch: Tony Spooner: Books in a day. It's a very good, and easy read written by a fellow Coastal Command and BOAC pilot who knew Bulloch well. The details of Bulloch's missions, and to some degree his personality, are well detailed. Well worth a read (if you can pick up a cheap copy).
Then I started two books. The first is
RDFI - The detection of aircraft by radio methods 1935-1945: The Location of Aircraft by Radar Methods 1935-1945: Michael Bragg which is an excellent history of the development of RDF (The 1 in the title is for ground radar - RDF2 was airborne radar). It goes into the political, as well as the technical details. The technical aspects are detailed but not overly so - even a complete novice like myself could understand most of it.
The other book (for light relief) is
The Forgotten French: Exiles in the British Isles, 1940-44: Nicholas Atkin which looks at the "myth" that all French exiles were supporters of De Gaulle. It starts by looking at the history of the small French exile communities over the last century or so. It then examines those french who were rescued at Dunkirk (of whom a very large number were either transported back to France to carry on fighting for the two weeks or so before the surrender, or elected to return to France after the surrender). It then goes on to examine the great divisions between the different French groups in Britain, and the problems De Gaulle had in establising himself as a leader of a viable army-in-exile.
I've also been dipping into the Bombs book I mentioned in an earlier post, and have had a browse through a book I received for free
Amazon.co.uk: Even the Birds Were Walking: The Story of Wartime Meteorological Reconnaissance: John Kington,Peter G. Rackliff: Books