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Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940 Paperback - 2004

by Patrick Bishop

The author of "The Provisional IRA" now presents a dramatic pilot's eye view of the campaign that saved Britain from Nazi invasion and changed the course of history. of photos.


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For 123 days in the summer of 1940, 3,000 youthful airmen in the Royal Air Force fought back against Hitler’s advancing forces with a  heroism that astonished the world. Drawing on interviews with scores of surviving pilots as well as diaries and letters never before seen, military historian and journalist Patrick Bishop re-creates with astonishing intimacy and clarity this excruciating, exhilarating war of nerves. In their own words, the pilots describe what it was like to bale out from a stricken plane, to go into battle in the face of overwhelming odds, to hear the screams of a comrade as he went down in flames. With a riveting, taut narrative, Fighter Boys relates how those young heroes changed the course of World War II—and the history of the modern world.

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For 123 days in the summer of 1940, 3,000 youthful airmen in the Royal Air Force fought back against Hitler's advancing forces with a heroism that astonished the world. Drawing on interviews with scores of surviving pilots as well as diaries and letters never before seen, military historian and journalist Patrick Bishop re-creates with astonishing intimacy and clarity this excruciating, exhilarating war of nerves. In their own words, the pilots describe what it was like to bale out from a stricken plane, to go into battle in the face of overwhelming odds, to hear the screams of a comrade as he went down in flames. With a riveting, taut narrative, Fighter Boys relates how those young heroes changed the course of World War II--and the history of the modern world.

First line

In the summer of 1940 the art of air fighting was only twenty-six years old.

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  • Title Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940
  • Author Patrick Bishop
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: First
  • Pages 464
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date July 27, 2004
  • ISBN 9780142004661 / 0142004669
  • Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.06 x 6.48 x 1 in (20.47 x 16.46 x 2.54 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003053522
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.544

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[Fighter Boys] portrays so intimately the lives, the experiences, the emotions and the fates of the pilots... A powerful yet restrained, at times almost unbearably touching, narrative. (Evening Standard, London)

About the author

Patrick Bishop, associate editor at the Daily Telegraph (London), is the originator of the television series The Irish Empire and the author of the highly acclaimed book The Provisional IRA. A foreign correspondent who covered the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, Bishop has also written books about the Falklands conflict and the Gulf War.
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