Conversations With My Father celebrates one man’s experiences of wartime pilot training through the Empire Air Training Scheme. Boyhood dreams give way to the anticipation of wartime and a reserve occupation. Struggling free, his RAF career would take him from the first solo in a Tiger Moth to the delights of flying Harvards over the South African bundu.

But The Few become the Too Many. Demob and Civvy Street see the beginning of a new adventure-filled life: the struggles just to get by are replaced with the effort of coping with the demands of Cross-

Channel ferry traffic and the birth of commercial aviation - British European Airways’ role in the Berlin Airlift and its massive growth into the 1950s; but there is more.

Part biography, part memoir and part social history, this is a real and wonderful true story of how a life deemed worthless may now be celebrated:

"A chronicle of the overlooked -
it is important"

"Mining a vein peripheral to the more conspicuous glamour of aviation"