Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940
by Bishop, Patrick
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- ISBN 10
- 0670032301
- ISBN 13
- 9780670032303
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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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- Off The Shelf LLC (US)
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- 4WILKM00HHD4
- Title
- Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940
- Author
- Bishop, Patrick
- Book Condition
- UsedGood
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670032301
- ISBN 13
- 9780670032303
- Publisher
- Viking Adult
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- August 21, 2003
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