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First Light - Couverture rigide

Wellum, Geoffrey

 
9780670912483: First Light
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0670912484 ISBN 13 : 9780670912483
Editeur : Viking, 2002

Synopsis

The gripping account of 'Boy' Wellum, one of the youngest fighter pilots in the Battle of Britain. Enlisting in the Air Force weeks before the outbreak of WWII, Geoffrey Wellum found himself fighting the Germans over the English Channel, a Spitfire pilot at just 18 years of age. The reader follows Geoffrey through early (disastrous!) training sessions, his first solo flights, his first battle & a harrowing account of being lost over the sea. He describes the unique, exhilarating experience of flying a Spitfire and, also, the terrible toll that it takes on the young mind and body. At the age of 21 he is worn out physically and mentally. His war is at an end ...

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À propos de l'auteur

When he was just 17, Geoffrey Wellum joined the RAF in August 1939 and served with 92 Squadron throughout the Battle of Britain. In 1942 he went to 65 Squadron at Debden as a Flight Commander and from there to Malta later that year. He led 8 Spitfires off HMS Furious to Luqa during Operation Pedestal. He now lives in Mullion in Cornwall and has three children.

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Éditeur
Viking
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0670912484
ISBN 13 
9780670912483
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
352
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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