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Taking a pilot's-eye view of the air battles over Britain in the summer of 1940, Bishop chronicles every conceivable aspect of the air-warrior's experience. Although the detail is fine-grained, resolving the Battle of Britain down to individual dogfights, Bishop competently and appealingly integrates the minutiae into a coherent narrative. Bishop sets the table with a discussion of the fighter plane and tactics as they evolved in World War I and their particular expression in the designs of the Hurricane and the Spitfire. Turning to the elite who flew those now-iconic planes, about 3,000 silk-scarved young men, Bishop serves the main course: their recollections, either published or, from the few still living, imparted to him in interviews, of the process of becoming pilots, from recruitment to training to combat. Well aware of how the subject has been romanticized, Bishop commendably evokes what it really was like to fly and die defending Britain from the Nazi menace. Gilbert Taylor
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The summer of 1940 was supposed to be the beginning of the end of Britain. Europe had fallen to Hitler's storm troops with terrifying speed, and once the Royal Air Force was destroyed, Britain was next. But that was precisely where the Nazis stumbled. For 123 days, while Herman Goering sent wave after wave of Luftwaffe fighters to rain down fire on Britain, three thousand young RAF airmen fought back with a ferocity and agility that stunned the world. Now in this riveting book, military historian and journalist Patrick Bishop presents the first account of this critical campaign told from the perspective of the pilots themselves.
Drawing on interviews with scores of surviving pilots as well as diaries and letters never seen before, Bishop re-creates with astonishing intimacy and clarity this excruciating, exhilarating war of nerves. In their own words, the pilots describe what it felt like when an engine exploded, a parachute failed to open, a swarm of Messerschmitts surrounded their plane, a bomb fell on their home village, a comrade's plane "went in" (their bland term for a high speed crash into the ground). Had the RAF failed, a successful German invasion would have been inevitable-and the pilots knew it. Under unimaginable pressure, these nineteen- and twenty-year-old heroes brought down the world's most powerful air force and saved their nation-and the free world.
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Taking a pilot's-eye view of the air battles over Britain in the summer of 1940, Bishop chronicles every conceivable aspect of the air-warrior's experience. Although the detail is fine-grained, resolving the Battle of Britain down to individual dogfights, Bishop competently and appealingly integrates the minutiae into a coherent narrative. Bishop sets the table with a discussion of the fighter plane and tactics as they evolved in World War I and their particular expression in the designs of the Hurricane and the Spitfire. Turning to the elite who flew those now-iconic planes, about 3,000 silk-scarved young men, Bishop serves the main course: their recollections, either published or, from the few still living, imparted to him in interviews, of the process of becoming pilots, from recruitment to training to combat. Well aware of how the subject has been romanticized, Bishop commendably evokes what it really was like to fly and die defending Britain from the Nazi menace. Gilbert Taylor
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Book Description
The summer of 1940 was supposed to be the beginning of the end of Britain. Europe had fallen to Hitler's storm troops with terrifying speed, and once the Royal Air Force was destroyed, Britain was next. But that was precisely where the Nazis stumbled. For 123 days, while Herman Goering sent wave after wave of Luftwaffe fighters to rain down fire on Britain, three thousand young RAF airmen fought back with a ferocity and agility that stunned the world. Now in this riveting book, military historian and journalist Patrick Bishop presents the first account of this critical campaign told from the perspective of the pilots themselves.
Drawing on interviews with scores of surviving pilots as well as diaries and letters never seen before, Bishop re-creates with astonishing intimacy and clarity this excruciating, exhilarating war of nerves. In their own words, the pilots describe what it felt like when an engine exploded, a parachute failed to open, a swarm of Messerschmitts surrounded their plane, a bomb fell on their home village, a comrade's plane "went in" (their bland term for a high speed crash into the ground). Had the RAF failed, a successful German invasion would have been inevitable-and the pilots knew it. Under unimaginable pressure, these nineteen- and twenty-year-old heroes brought down the world's most powerful air force and saved their nation-and the free world.
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