Outstanding memoir.
For a vet to take 40 years before writing him memoirs might seem too long to remember well the experiences he had as a World War II B24 pilot, but perhaps in the instance of “Those Who Fall” it was a necessary time to allow the heroics, tragedy and suffering to settle into a place where a book could be written without unnecessary emotional connection to the memories. After having flown innumerable missions over the Italian theatre, Muirhead is shot down and taken prisoner. He is kept captive in Bulgaria. The writing is excellent, meditative, poetic and fused with philosophy one doesn’t often hear from hard-core bomber pilots of the 2nd World War. Roberson Dean delivers a reading of this beautifully written book with a sympathetic as well as a compassionate understanding of war that many of us haven’t read about. A definite recommendation