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Fighter Boys: The Pilots Behind the Battle of Britain: Saving Britain 1940

Fighter Boys: The Pilots Behind the Battle of Britain: Saving Britain 1940

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Fighter Boys: The Pilots Behind the Battle of Britain: Saving Britain 1940

by Bishop, Patrick

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0006532047
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9780006532040
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Harper Perennial, 2004. No marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers or to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. 434pp. An account of the small body of men, fighter pilots - on whom so much depended in 1940 to ward off the German attacks.. Soft Cover. Fine. 7.75 x 5 inches.

Synopsis

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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Godley Books GB (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #
023281
Title
Fighter Boys: The Pilots Behind the Battle of Britain: Saving Britain 1940
Author
Bishop, Patrick
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Fine
ISBN 10
0006532047
ISBN 13
9780006532040
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
2004
Keywords
Second World War, Air War, Aircraft, Fighters
Bookseller catalogs
Military; Transport - Air; History;
Size
7.75 x 5 inches

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