When last we saw Lambie in Donald Lambie’s War — Episode Two, he was on his way to Bellaria from a Personnel Transit Centre in the south of Italy after having finished a short refresher Spitfire flying course at Guado, Italy.

When last we saw our intrepid aviator, in Episode One of Donald Lambie’s War, he had boarded His Majesty’s Troopship Andes in Halifax for a crossing of the Atlantic. …

Don Lambie died before he even knew that his album was found. What right did we have to even have it in our possession, let alone pore over it with the intent of publishing it. It was, after all, his personal story not ours. What compelled us to tell his story, the story of a man we never met?

Initialement prévue comme une série en deux parties, ce récit des expériences d’un homme pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale s’étendra désormais sur trois épisodes. C’est l’histoire d’un pilote ordinaire de Spitfire à la toute fin…

De tous les anciens combattants de la Seconde Guerre mondiale que j’ai rencontrés et au sujet desquels j’ai écrit au fil des ans, celui que je connaissais le mieux, que j’aimais le plus et que je manquais le plus profondément…