FIRST EDITION 1942. Zero Hours – 3rd In The Gun Buster Series By Gun Buster

Gun Buster was the pseudonymous author of a series of novels about the British exploits in World War II. His works have been attributed to John Charles Austin and his son, Captain Richard Campion Austin (1912–2001), who was a captain in the Royal Artillery. Writing during World War II his approach was one of mitigating depressing aspects of the war. In a 1964 review, W.J. Hurlow of the Ottawa Citizen lauded Gun Buster’s books as “the work of a skilled writer gifted with powers of observation and description amounting almost to genius”, and found the latest in the series, Zero Hours, “a series of incidents in the desert wars”, to be “quite on a level with the author’s depictions of battle scenes on other fronts.”