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163advised him that Tiger Force was being set up to attack Japan and offered him the opportunity to join it. That was about a year before the Force actually began to be created and a full nine months before the name was even introduced.2 I do not doubt that the diaries exist, in some form, but I suspect that they have been substantially embellished before they appeared in print. Without sight of the original manuscript, of course, one can only offer an opinion on the evidence as it is presented and mine is that this 2008page hardback probably owes a lot more to Swan than it does to Muirhead. Because I harbour reservations over its authenticity, I hesitate to recommend it as a positive contribution to the recording of RAF history. %u00093%u000e%u0006ffi8%u00063%u0013+-%u0017/%u0006%u0008+8%u0015/,%u0006%u0003%u0017(%) by Air Commodore D%u2019Arcy Greig (edited and annotated by Norman Franks and Simon Muggleton. Grub Street, 2010. %u00a320. Yet another memoir of an old aviator. In this case Air Cdre D%u2019Arcy Greig whose account is confined to his experiences as a junior officer in the 1920s with a preamble to cover his brief, if remarkable, service during WW I %u2013 in September 1918, flying an FE2b of No 83 Sqn on only his third night bombing sortie, he was forced to land behind enemy lines and successfully evaded capture. Greig died in 1986 but he has had the benefit of two editors, although they appear to have made their contributions without reference to each other, resulting in a lack of co8ordination and some duplication. For instance, Muggleton reproduces the citation for Greig%u2019s AFC on page 5 and Franks does it again on page 225. Muggleton%u2019s Introduction includes a summary of Greig%u2019s later career, as does Franks%u2019 Epilogue and it is notable that the former%u2019s contribution exposes his unfamiliarity with air force organisation. There are also problems with the captions to one or two of the pictures 2 TNA AIR10/3931. Secret Organisation Memorandum 1086/1945 directed that the %u2018Nucleus Planning Staff %u2013 VLR Force%u2019 was to be redesignated as %u2018Nucleus Planning Staff %u2013 Tiger Force%u2019 with effect from 3 May 1945. This introduced the name, although HQ Tiger Force was not actually established until 9 July and it was only then, when specific units began to be earmarked for deployment to the Pacific, that serious %u2018recruiting%u2019 started.