THE COURAGE OF THE EARLY MORNING: A SON'S BIOGRAPHY OF A FAMOUS FATHER. Bishop, William Arthur. Toronto, McClelland and Stewart, c1965, 1985. 211pp, paper, $9.95, ISBN 0-7710-15240. CIP Grades 8 and up Reviewed by Alfred L.F. Greenwood Volume 14 Number 2 1986 March In World War I, Canadian fighter pilot Billy Bishop was credited with seventy-two enemy aircraft destroyed, more than any other Allied pilot. For his feats in the cloth and wire aircraft of his day, Bishop was granted the British Empire's highest military award, the Victoria Cross, became a legend in his own time, and was firmly established as one of Canada's true and genuine heroes. In World War II he was recalled into the Royal Canadian Air Force and, as Air Marshall Bishop, he contributed enormously to the Commonwealth Air Training Scheme and inspired a whole new generation of fighter pilots. On occasion Bishop would attend a "Wings Parade" to hand out that precious talisman, "his wings," to budding pilots. Among these recipients was young William Arthur Bishop, his son, who went on to fly Spitfires overseas with 401 squadron of the RCAF. Young Bishop entered advertising after the war, and in 1965 when this book was first published in hardcover, he was operating his own public relations firm in Toronto. This book is the result of a promise made by the author to his father before he died. It is a worthy tribute to a well-loved parent. It is also a good book, a well researched, well-written, dispassionate biography of a gallant pilot and a great soldier. John Bassett, publisher of the Montreal Gazette, wrote of Bishop: ". . .for he had that courage which Napoleon said was the rarest-the courage of the Early Morning." Alfred L.F. Greenwood, Victoria, B.C.