Wings Against the Sky Author:Richard Alexander Hough This is an unusually credible novel of aerial combat in World War II by a former fighter pilot who writes with authority concerning those chaotic years. It covers a relatively unknown period of the war -- the months prior to the Battle of Britain, when it became apparent that air power was bringing a radically new dimension to the war.&nbs... more »p;
Keith Stewart a young Englishman and his American friend , Mike Browning, intrigued with the idea of becoming fighter pilots, volunteered for the R.A.F. Reality hit them quickly during their first encounters with the enemy. Flying was one thing; fighter-to-fighter combat in a deadly game of kill-or-be-killed with Luftwaffe Messerschmitt 109s was quite another. Together and separately they had their share of adventures and misadventures as Norway and then France fell to the Nazis. Few are aware of how dismal the outlook was by the late spring of 19400, particularly for the British.
Wings Against the Sky portrays with pace and passion the spirit, courage, and often times reckless daring of the young R.A.F. pilots during the earliest, bleakest months the war. It is also a tender love story, exploring the shattering, disruptive effect of war on the idealistic innocence of the young men and women who served.« less