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Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940
Fighter Boys The Battle of Britain 1940 Author:Patrick Bishop 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... more » 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 IIand the history of the modern world.« less
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An excellent and personal history of the British pilots that won the Battle of Britain. Gives a clear and fascinating appreciation of the difficulties and extraordinary achievements of the pilots.