| Título : |
FIGHTER BOYS The battle of Britain, 1940 |
| Tipo de documento: |
texto impreso |
| Autores: |
BISHOP, PATRICK, Autor |
| Editorial: |
LONDON : PENGUIN BOOKS |
| Fecha de publicación: |
2004 |
| Número de páginas: |
434p |
| ISBN/ISSN/DL: |
978-0-14-200466-1 |
| Idioma : |
Inglés (eng) |
| Palabras clave: |
Britain Battle of Great Britain 1940
Britain 1940 -- Personal narratives British
Great Britain Royal Air Force Fighter Command -- History
World War 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations British |
| Resumen: |
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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FIGHTER BOYS The battle of Britain, 1940
