Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940

Informationen zum Autor Patrick Bishop has been a foreign correspondent for over twenty years, reporting from conflicts all over the world and working as senior correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. He is the author of The Irish Empire ; the acclaimed bookThe Provisional IRA with Eamonn Mallie; and the bestselling Fighter Boys ,Bomber Boys and `3 Parä. He lives in London. Klappentext Intimate portrait of the young men charged with flying the dogfighting missions in the skies over Britain during the summer of 1940. Bishop draws on previously unseen testimonies to focus more readily on the lives and thoughts of the young crewmen for whom this was, almost exclusively, the first combat experience. "Powerful yet restrained, at times almost unbearably touching" T.J. Binyon Zusammenfassung In the summer of 1940! the future of Britain and the free world depended on the morale and skill of the young men of Fighter Command. This is their story.

Klappentext

Intimate portrait of the young men charged with flying the dogfighting missions in the skies over Britain during the summer of 1940. Bishop draws on previously unseen testimonies to focus more readily on the lives and thoughts of the young crewmen for whom this was, almost exclusively, the first combat experience. "Powerful yet restrained, at times almost unbearably touching" T.J. Binyon

Zusammenfassung
In the summer of 1940, the future of Britain and the free world depended on the morale and skill of the young men of Fighter Command. This is their story.