I had reservations about the accuracy of the book after reading the blurb on Amazon: "Subsequent reconstructions added a 300-foot landing deck aft, enabling Furious to conduct the first carrier-launched air attack, against the Zeppelin sheds at Tondern in Denmark in 1915." The operation was in 1918, Tondern was in Schleswig and was German territory until after World War I, and the landing deck was never used after initial trials in March-April 1918, so had no relevance to the ability to undertake the raid on Tondern. (Seaforth itself went one better and substituted 1815 for 1915!!)

Nevertheless, I went ahead and ordered a copy which arrive yesterday. I've not yet read all of it but was somewhat put off to read that the final armament included seven (7) 8-barrelled 2-pdrs. From issues of the Admiralty C.B. 01815B from October 1943 to October 1945 - the half-yearly return of Particulars of War Vessels - Furious only carried four(4) so I hope this is not reflective of the accuracy of the book as a whole.

Maurice