Due to our close friendship and Denis’ razor sharp memory, his mesmerising stories are told with a candid honesty like never before. But now, you have the opportunity to read Denis’s life, in his exact words. Many people have told me ‘I didn’t even know that the RAF had a presence in India and the Far East’. Though the heroics of the RAF across western Europe are well known, the impact that the RAF had in the Far East is not. Details and stories that are so unbelievable that they almost don’t seem real, and that isn’t even including his experiences during the War! But to me, these tantalising, gripping, death-defying stories had to be told before they were lost forever.įortunately, he agreed and over the next year, over many cups of tea, the jaw-dropping stories that Denis had experienced throughout his life came to the surface after decades of being locked away. Even then I expected him to say no, as he had done to similar offers in the past. It was only after a severe illness and fall in 2018 that almost killed Denis that the idea of writing his life story even occurred to me. Many of his stories were always locked away, unknown to you or anyone else. However, being a private man, Denis was never one to openly talk about his horrific childhood or his fifteen years as a pilot dealing with enemy fire, engine explosions, engine fires, mechanical faults, passing out at the controls, vicious storms and much more all while flying some of the most iconic aircraft around the world.
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My name is Philip Martin, and I was best friends with Denis for many years, hearing many of his surreal stories during this time.
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If you want to be grabbed and exposed to a theatre of The Second World War that many don’t know about in a gripping manner straight from a man who overcame a childhood filled with savage hardship to complete a tour of operations captaining Liberator aircraft against the Japanese at the young age of 20, then this book will take you on an unbelievable journey.