Fighter Boys The Battle of Britain 1940

Name: Fighter Boys The Battle of Britain 1940
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ISBN: 9780142004661

ISBN-10: 0142004669

ISBN-13: 9780142004661

Edition: N/A

Authors: Patrick Bishop

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For 123 days in the summer of 1940, 3,000 youthful airmen in the Royal Air Force fought back against Hitlers 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 Boysrelates how those young heroes…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 7/27/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Preface


Prologue: The White Hart



Sportsmen and Butchers



Fighters versus Bombers



'Free of Boundaries, Free of Gravity, Free of Ties'



The Fatal Step



Winter of Uncertainty



Return to the Western Front



The Battle of France



Dunkirk



Doing It



Before the Storm



The Channel Battle



The Hun



Hearth and Home



Attrition



Brotherhood



'The Day Had Been a Year'



Autumn Sunset



Rhubarbs and Circuses


Epilogue: The Last Note


Notes and References


Index