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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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Fighter Boys, Patrick Bishop
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- 2004
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- Titul
- Fighter Boys
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Patrick Bishop
- Vydavateľ
- Harper Perennial
- Rok vydania
- 2004
- Väzba
- mäkká
- ISBN10
- 0007743394
- ISBN13
- 9780007743391
- Série
- Štítky
- Náučná literatúra, Historické téma, Technológie & Priemysel, História, Automobily & Doprava, Vojenské dejiny, Vojnová próza, Vojny, Druhá svetová vojna, Letectvo
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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.