Lucas has an authority on the subject I can't even come close to matching, so criticising the content of the book seems simply wrong. However taken as a whole the stories told seemed not to have a particularly coherent definition of luck and instead seemed more to be a collection of tales from friends and colleagues. The quality of some of these tales was outstanding, others, less so. I feel the book might have been better had it been more heavily edited, so sometimes it felt a drag to complete rather than something to relish. ( )

An anthology of lucky pilot moments ranging over aerial warfare. Lucas was really the editor, and the book passed the time. ( )

Erratic and philosophically unconvincing, this is a cracking collection of anecdotes loosely involving some supposed "chance" aspects of air warfare. The tales are introduced and editorialised by the editor, whose interjections are presented in italic text and at some length - judicious editing of the editor's contributions would have made the book more readable. Nevertheless, a fascinatingly broad selection of stories from pilots and crew over the history of aerial combat. ( )

This is an outstanding collection of incidents that occurred to men & women while flying airplanes in war and how fate or luck seems to play a major role in their survival. Some of these have appeared in other collections but most were new to me. Most descriptions are one page long or less. Lucas was a pilot in the RAF during WW II and is mentioned in one of the battle descriptions. Each article is taken from the fliers' own memoirs or interviews by others including Lucas; or they are recollections of a witness to the event taken from the same type of sources. German, Czech, Japanese, Italian, French, Polish and American as well as British & Commonwealth pilots are represented here. ( )