The Ghosts of the Eighth Attack — David Beaty

In 1940, the airfield at Marshfield was home to the battered RAF 13 Squadron, an assortment of battled-hardened survivors and young, half-trained recruits, none of whom was more inept than Peter Maddox. Yet, time and again, Maddox achieved brilliant coups against all odds. Strange things began to happen. Where was the unseen dog that howled befo... more »re operations, presaging death? Why did Maddox claim to have been guided to land in dense fog by a biplane of a type not seen at Marshfield since 1918? It seemed as if 13 Squadron was linked with invisible forces.