Sunday Times August 2010.

‘Kershaw has built up a telling portrait of both the courage and the vulnerability that the paratroopers displayed…

…much the best part of the book is his reconstruction of the experiences of airborne soldiers in the Second World War’.

Daily Mail July 2010.

‘A fascinating new book tells how the Parachute Regiment was born and the terrors they faced learning to jump out of aeroplanes’.

Shropshire Star August 2010.

‘This is a fascinating book which brings home the odds which were always stacked against the paratroopers…Kershaw takes a close look at what it takes to be a paratrooper’.