Air Force Blue: The RAF in World War Two

Author:   Patrick Bishop
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers
Edition:   ePub edition
ISBN:  

9780007433155


Pages:   432
Publication Date:   08 March 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Patrick Bishop
Publisher:   HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:   William Collins
Edition:   ePub edition
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9780007433155


ISBN 10:   0007433158
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   08 March 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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`As a former war correspondent with more than 30 years' experience, Bishop brings journalistic strengths to his second career as a popular historian: an easily readable and exciting writing style, a knowledge of what fighting means to those at the sharp end, a nose for the nub of the story, and an admirable compassion for the victims of war on all sides...a book that at once educates, explains, and excites' BBC History magazine, Book of the Month `Monumental ... after Bishop's pilot's eye views of the war in Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys, Air Force Blue counts as a publishing event. It won't disappoint The Times `Compelling ... Mr Bishop has an enormous tale to tell as he leads up to 1939 and six years of formative war...what Mr. Bishop does so well is to show how the RAF came to be such a distinctive and effective force' Country Life `This is a terrifically readable, authoritative book that told me many fascinating things I did not know' Max Hastings, Sunday Times `This meticulously compiled survey sets out to combine encomium with a series of unblinkered evaluations' TLS


Praise for Patrick Bishop: `I know of no more thoughtful nor yet more moving study of their achievement.' Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph `Deeply humane, lucidly written and powerful...Bishop, a war correspondent, has a keen eye for the stresses and strains of the job these boys did...All this bravery, and the way of life that supported it, are faithfully recorded in Bishop's refreshingly unpretentious account.' Michael Burleigh, Sunday Times `This is the best kind of military history - the kind in which the author never loses sight of the impact of war on its victims, German as well as British, and those who were left behind. Bomber Boys will remind the survivors that they and their lost comrades are not forgotten. And it reminds the rest of us what their war was all about.' Daniel Johnson, Evening Standard `This is a terrific book, so riveting, exciting and moving that it must help bring back the Bomber Boys to their rightful place of honour. A true war memorial.' Montagu Curzon, Spectator `A compelling account of life in RAF Bomber Command...[Bishop] covers every aspect of their lives...as he tells their stories, he keeps hold of the strategy that led these men to be flying in the first place.' Telegraph `A living, breathing monument to the fighter boys.' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday `As a vivid chronicle of who the Battle of Britain pilots were, what motivated them, and why they were ultimately successful, Fighter Boys is unsurpassed.' Daily Telegraph `No one reading this book can possibly doubt the heroism of those involved...there can't be a finer history.' James Holland, New Statesman


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Patrick Bishop worked as senior correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. He is the author of The Irish Empire; the acclaimed book The Provisional IRA with Eamonn Mallie; the bestselling Fighter Boys ; and most recently the bestselling Bomber Boys and 3 Para. He lives in London.

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