Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940

Author:   Patrick Bishop
Publisher:   Penguin Putnam Inc
ISBN:  

9780142004661


Pages:   464
Publication Date:   27 July 2004
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Paperback
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Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940


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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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Author:   Patrick Bishop
Publisher:   Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint:   Penguin USA
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.20cm
Weight:   0.425kg
ISBN:  

9780142004661


ISBN 10:   0142004669
Pages:   464
Publication Date:   27 July 2004
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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[Fighter Boys] portrays so intimately the lives, the experiences, the emotions and the fates of the pilots... A powerful yet restrained, at times almost unbearably touching, narrative. ( Evening Standard , London)


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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.

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