Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940 Paperback - 2004
by Patrick Bishop
The author of "The Provisional IRA" now presents a dramatic pilot's eye view of the campaign that saved Britain from Nazi invasion and changed the course of history. of photos.
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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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- Title Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940
- Author Patrick Bishop
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date July 27, 2004
- ISBN 9780142004661 / 0142004669
- Weight 0.98 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 6.48 x 1 in (20.47 x 16.46 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 1900-1919
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003053522
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.544
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