Churchill's Few
The Battle of Britain
Eighty years after the Battle of Britain this vivid and dramatic book tells the story, in their own words, of six brave young men who fought courageously in the skies above England to prevent Hitler's invasion of Britain.This thin blue line in their Hurricanes and Spitfires were the 'few' to whom Churchill said the nation owed so much. It was, as one pilot's wife put it 'a queer, golden time', when men in their teens and twenties fought each other in a brutal but still gentlemanly conflict. At stake was the very future of Britain.The six men in this sympathetic but honest portrayal were from vastly contrasting backgrounds. Geoffrey Page, shot…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-912914-06-7
- EAN: 9781912914067
- Produktnummer: 34007687
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 847 KB
Über den Autor
John Willis is one of Britain's best known television executives. He is a former Director of Programmes at Channel 4 and Director of Factual and Learning at the BBC. He was Vice-president of National Programs at WGBH Boston. In 2012 he was elected as Chair of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).He started his career as a documentary maker and won a string of major awards for his films including Johnny Go Home, Alice - A Fight for Life, Rampton - The Secret Hospital, and of course Churchill's Few on which this book is based.He is currently Chair of Mentorn Media, producers of Question Time for BBC and he also chairs the Board of Governors at the Royal Central School for Speech and Drama.He divides his time between London and Norfolk.
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