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Fighter boys : saving Britain 1940

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Fighter boys : saving Britain 1940

by Bishop, Patrick

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London: Harper Perennial, 2004. Reprint. Softcover. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical Description: xiii, 434, 15 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 20 cm. Subjects; Bataille d'Angleterre, Grande-Bretagne, 1940. Britain, Battle of, Great Britain, 1940. Personal narratives; World War 2. World War 2; aircraft.

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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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Title
Fighter boys : saving Britain 1940
Author
Bishop, Patrick
Format/Binding
Softcover
Book Condition
Used
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Edition
Reprint
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0007743394
ISBN 13
9780007743391
Publisher
London: Harper Perennial
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
2004

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