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Wings: The RAF at War, 1912-2012
Patrick Bishop
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Description for Wings: The RAF at War, 1912-2012
Paperback. Num Pages: 402 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 135 x 32. Weight in Grams: 418.
The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill's 'famous few' held Goering's Luftwaffe at bay in the Battle of Britain, thereby changing the course of the war. For much of the twentieth century, warplanes were fixed in the world's imagination, a symbol of the perils and excitements of the modern era. Aviators have always seemed different to soldiers and sailors - more adventurous and imaginative. Their stories gripped the public and in both wars and air aces dominated each side's propaganda, capturing hearts and dreams. Writing with the verve, passion ... Read more
The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill's 'famous few' held Goering's Luftwaffe at bay in the Battle of Britain, thereby changing the course of the war. For much of the twentieth century, warplanes were fixed in the world's imagination, a symbol of the perils and excitements of the modern era. Aviators have always seemed different to soldiers and sailors - more adventurous and imaginative. Their stories gripped the public and in both wars and air aces dominated each side's propaganda, capturing hearts and dreams. Writing with the verve, passion ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
404
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781848878938
SKU
V9781848878938
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99-10
About Patrick Bishop
Patrick Bishop has been a foreign correspondent since 1982, covering numerous wars and conflicts around the world and he has reported from the front line of almost every major war of our era. In the last six years he has emerged as a military historian of the first order with his top-ten bestsellers Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys, which cast ... Read more
Reviews for Wings: The RAF at War, 1912-2012
In this superb, pacy, often moving portrait of brave young men and women maintaining their sang-froid against hopeless odds, Patrick Bishop has done full justice to this subject, and confirmed himself as one of our finest popular military historians.
Mail on Sunday
Magisterial sweep and range are combined with succinct and lucid analysis, all in prose as crisp ... Read more
Mail on Sunday
Magisterial sweep and range are combined with succinct and lucid analysis, all in prose as crisp ... Read more