Reported Missing: Lost Airmen of the Second World War - Couverture rigide

Nesbit, Roy Conyers

 
9781844158225: Reported Missing: Lost Airmen of the Second World War
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1844158225 ISBN 13 : 9781844158225
Editeur : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2009

Synopsis

Roy Nesbit brings to bear all the insight gained from his flying experience and his skill as a aviation historian as he investigates the wartime disappearances he describes in this haunting book. In vivid detail he retells the stories of two of the best-known disappearances ' the pioneering aviator and renowned author Antoine Saint-ExupA ry and the photo-reconnaissance ace Adrian Warburton. But he also explores several less well-known but equally dramatic cases ' the crew of a Beaufort torpedo bomber that vanished off the coast of Greece, the loss of a Czech Hurricane pilot in Belgium, and the disappearance of a Lancaster crew during a raid on Germany. In his search to discover the fate of these lost airmen, he reconstructs the circumstances of their final flights and reconstructs their last moments in the air, and he puts together all the scattered pieces of evidence that have come to light since the war to explain their loss. His historical detective work emphasizes the uncertainties and terrible risks that were a routine element in operational flying 60 years ago. The stories make compelling reading.

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Éditeur
Pen & Sword Aviation
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1844158225
ISBN 13 
9781844158225
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
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Personne responsable
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