The German inquiry blamed the accident on pilot error. However this book establishes beyond any question that this was not so. Based on his enormous technical knowledge of aircraft accident investigation years of research & interviews with those involved the author shows that the pilot Captain James Thain performed heroically & was shamefully treated by the aviation authorities for many years. Munich swept away a generation of gifted footballers including the legendary Duncan Edwards Tommy Taylor Roger Byrne David Pegg & Liam Whelan from Dublin. Stephen Morrins authoritative book is a story of tragedy a pilots heroism in adversity legal treachery & one of the defining moments in the Manchester United story. It was a sporting disaster that gave birth to a legend
- a legend which fifty years later shows no sign of diminishing.