2008-05-23 The Spriit of the Last Enemy

A sound tapestry of research is the structure, the recording of the serial numbers of aircraft can be read with interest by the afficiando or ignored by the aesthete. The reflections are of interest to both.

However somehow the book captures the spirit of Richard Hilary and of his time once again. The yellowed love letters of doomed romance, The faded photographs of the long haired boys.

Once again the metaphysical the apparition at the start and end of the book. Would the Last Enemy have been the same and as interesting without the premonition of the last flight and death of Hilary's friend Peter Pease.

So amongst all the great research and chronology of facts we are left with some metaphysical speculation. "Did the author really see a ghost spirit", we are left to guess and enjoy, and that is human which is perhaps what it is all about.