Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940 - Couverture rigide

Bishop, Patrick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670032301 ISBN 13 : 9780670032303

Editeur : Viking Pr, 2003

Synopsis

Book by Bishop Patrick

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Patrick Bishop, associate editor at the Daily Telegraph (London), is the originator of the television series The Irish Empire and the author of the highly acclaimed book The Provisional IRA. A foreign correspondent who covered the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, Bishop has also written books about the Falklands conflict and the Gulf War.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Viking Pr
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0670032301
• ISBN 13: 9780670032303
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 434