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The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story

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The Sky Suspended: A Fighter Pilot's Story is the remarkable and memorable autobiography of Jim Bailey, who in the summer of 1939 while a 19-year old student at Oxford University felt strongly that war between England and Germany was inevitable. That was when he signed up to become a fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force. Baily flew British fighter planes in aerial combat missions that ranged from the Battle of Britain, through the action at Gibraltar, and the Anzio beach-heads, to the landing in the South of France. One of the true heroes for which Winston Churchill was to acknowledge with his famous declaration that never had "so many owed so much to so few", The Sky Suspended is the true life story of heroism, survival against the odds, and a remembering of so many that did not make it through -- but to whom so much is owed to that generation of young men by all of the generations that follow. This special large printed edition of The Sky Suspended is a great read, and a welcome addition to the growing library of World War II memoirs and biographies.

Its an Ok book about a Beaufighter and Defiant pilot during WW2. Not the best read on the subject but entertaining.

I want only to make the point that of the two reviews posted for this book, one is completely phony. I was interested in buying this book and noted that of the two reviews, one was 5-stars and the other 1-star with scathing comments. So I checked out the 5-star "Midwest Book Review" author. I went through more than 300 pages of his reviews (with at least 10 books per page) and discovered that he rates EVERYTHING 5-stars. He might have tens of thousands of reviews; I stopped looking after 310 pages of reviews. It is disingenuous and deceptive for Amazon to include the reviews of a shill like Midwest without some kind of warning. Be warned.... COL Tom Pool