What the RAF Airman Took to War
Between July and October 1940, in what became known as the Battle of Britain, a nation held its breath while the pilots of the Royal Air Force battled Hitler's Luftwaffe in the skies above England. A huge number of airmen lost their lives in this hard-fought episode and in the four years of air campaigns that followed, and those who survived faced terrifying risks; as Prime Minister Winston Churchill put it, 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few'. In this beautifully illustrated tribute to 'The Few', Bill Howard catalogues the objects which were essential to every wartime pilot, from the superstitious goo…
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Weitere Autoren: Wagner, Michael H. (Illustr.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78442-077-2
- EAN: 9781784420772
- Produktnummer: 18705619
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 120 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 39'930 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: 9 b/w; 54 col
Über den Autor
Bill Howard is a military historian based in the United States. He has written several books and many articles on military and social history.
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