Rooney's book is a good chronicle of Mike Calvert's life. Although well researched, it is not a biography in my opinion. The book tells us just about nothing of Calvert's man within. Contrast this with the wealth of detail concerning the life of a fighter from the previous generation, Siegfried Sassoon. I rather fancy these two may have something in common. I am left without any information concerning Mike Calvert's attitude to sex, love, and other values. We are told precious little about Mike's friends. Rooney does not adequately explain just why did Calvert antagonise so many other senior officers. I am prepared to accept Rooney's view that the indecency charges concerning Mike and German youths were unfairly and relentlessly pursued. What puzzles me is why? People like myself who have ambivalent feelings concerning their sexuality would have benefited from a biography rather than a chronicle.