FIGHTER BOYS: SAVING BRITAIN 1940
by Patrick Bishop
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- ISBN 10
- 0006532047
- ISBN 13
- 9780006532040
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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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- Military History Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- FIGHTER BOYS: SAVING BRITAIN 1940
- Author
- Patrick Bishop
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0006532047
- ISBN 13
- 9780006532040
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- March 29, 2004
- Keywords
- Aviation - General The Battle of Britain was one of the most crucial battles of the Second World War and the victory of Fighter Command over the Luftwaffe has always been celebrated as a classic feat of arms.Reaching beyond the myths to convey the fear an
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