During the Second World War, Flt Lt Richard Stevens led an extraordinary
campaign as an RAF nightfighter. Known to contemporaries as 'Cat's Eyes'
and by the height of his success in July 1941 as the 'Lone Wolf', Flt Lt
Stevens was the RAF's highest scoring nightfighter pilot with fourteen
victories. What makes his story unique is that all this was achieved
without the aid of radar or another crew member. Instead Flt Lt Stevens
used extraordinary skill, instinct and innate marksmanship.
Described as 'one of the greatest nightfighter pilots who ever fought in
Fighter Command' by Sir Archibald Sinclair, Secretary of State for Air
and with AVM B. E. Embry also crediting 'his high standard of courage
and skill as a nightfighter pilot' as a contribution to the final defeat
of the enemy at night - it is not hard to see why Stevens was greatly
admired by his peers. Thanks to over twenty years of painstaking
research by Terry Thompson and a rich resource of documentation and
photography, Andy Saunders is now able to tell the exceptional story of
one of Britain's finest nightflying pilots of the Second World War. This
extraordinary biography will be eagerly devoured by WWII military
aviation enthusiasts and students of air warfare.