A fascinating, minutely researched and ground breaking new book ... which turns out to be a tale of adventure, honour and raw courage quite as exciting as anything found in fiction or on the silver screen

Ferguson's account of both sets of operations is exciting and his enthusiasm is infectious

This is an excellent book and thoroughly recommended

Excellent, entertaining and informative ... It is genuinely hard to put down

Good, pacy stuff and impressively researched

An extradordinary story, told for the first time

Their gung-ho story is told with much buckle and swash

A barnstorming history

This true story has all the ingredients of a John Buchan 1920s thriller

Whatever your views on Grant's own creative output which I find both dazzling and, on occasions, daunting, no one can deny the man's blistering intelligence and throughout his career he has never ceased from innovation. Each new project makes readers sit up and think and I imagine many of his peers have felt the same way. Similarly this 400-page history of and tribute to this medium's meta - humans will give you much to ponder, and I don't think any true fan of the genre, as I have been since five, can afford to be without its illuminating torch

If this were just Morrison's story, the reminiscences of an original Scots thinker who works in a medium that silly people scorn, it would be worth your time. The sections detailing the writer's relationship with his father are especially touching. What makes this book exceptional is the history of comics that comes with the history of Morrison... As a superhero fan, I found this a diverting read. As a people fan, I found it unputdownable

Authoritative overview of the genre...detailed and thoughtful

Morrison's analysis of how comic books have reflected and influenced mainstream culture is never less than intriguing, and his turn of phrase is often a joy

This is entertaining stuff

Butterworth's fascination with his subject drips from the page...this is entertaining stuff

An astounding story of bitter civil warfare that raged across many countries for decades. Butterworth's passionate account of the anarchist movements born in the late 19th century describes a conflict that spawned its own "war on terror"