This Island Earth

This Island Earth, was a fix-up, but for once that wasnt very apparent. It was good fun, good old fashioned adventure,but with some interesting points. As ever, WWII looms over the book. Jones makes the point that just as in the war small islands with so called "primitive" peoples were dragged in to the bigger conflict, and were often left with a wrecked society after their usefulness was done, here Earth is a very backward planet which can be easily sacrificed in the huge scale of an millennia old interstellar conflict. But our good old engineer who had been used as a sort of factory foreman points out a new tactic to fight the evil enemy. The book ends there before the tactics are deployed, but it is an optimistic ending. A pleasant read, though not stellar.