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The Bright Squadrons: A True Story of Love and War: Barbara Rigby's Diary
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The Bright Squadrons: A True Story of Love and War: Barbara Rigby's Diary 1944-1946 Hardcover - 2014

by Barbara Harper-Nelson; Genevieve Monneris


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  • Title The Bright Squadrons: A True Story of Love and War: Barbara Rigby's Diary 1944-1946
  • Author Barbara Harper-Nelson; Genevieve Monneris
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Amberley Publishing
  • Date 2014
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Dust Cover, Illustrated, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781445639390 / 1445639394
  • Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.4 x 6.2 x 1.1 in (23.88 x 15.75 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945, France combattante - Airmen
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.548

About the author

Barbara Harper-Nelson (nee Rigby), was living in Liverpool when she met 22 year-old Francis Usai of the Free French air force based in England. This book is based on their remarkable diaries and letters. The correspondence is edited by French film-maker Genevieve Monneris and translated into English by Michel Darribehaude, Senior Lecturer in British Civilisation Studies at the Universite du Sud Toulon Var.Genevive Monneris won Best Documentary, at the Imperial War Museum London Film Festival 2012, for De Lourds Souvenirs, 24-12-1944, a film about her father's aircrew (347 'Tunisie' Squadron) made with her son Thomas Lesgoirres. She is the author of two other documentary films in memory of the French Squadrons in RAF Bomber Command, which have been screened at the Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington / York, and at London Imperial War Museum: Apart from that, everything's ok! including six French veterans' accounts with archive wartime footage, and Henry and Pat, December 1943-November 1944, a film about another Franco-English couple, Henri and Pat Martin who were Francis and Barbara's closest friends.
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