Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940
by Patrick Bishop
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- Paperback
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- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0142004669
- ISBN 13
- 9780142004661
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Friends Book Store (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 265752
- Title
- Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940
- Author
- Patrick Bishop
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0142004669
- ISBN 13
- 9780142004661
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- July 2004
- Pages
- 464
- Bookseller catalogs
- History - WWII;
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