Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot
Published on 10. May 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-7524-5788-8 (ISBN)
Description
Southern England. Late summer 1940. The nation is fighting for its very survival and the Luftwaffe's aerial offensive is unrelenting. All that lies between invasion and salvation for Britain is the 'thin blue line' of RAF Fighter Command and its pilots.
This newly illustrated anniversary edition of Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot reveals what it was like to fly a fighter plane in the Battle of Britain. Who were the Spitfire and Hurricane pilots of 1940? How did they spend a typical day? And when pitched together in combat at 30,000 feet, which was the better machine - Spitfire or Me109?
Read Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot and then ask yourself: would I have been up to the job?
This newly illustrated anniversary edition of Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot reveals what it was like to fly a fighter plane in the Battle of Britain. Who were the Spitfire and Hurricane pilots of 1940? How did they spend a typical day? And when pitched together in combat at 30,000 feet, which was the better machine - Spitfire or Me109?
Read Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot and then ask yourself: would I have been up to the job?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 164 mm
Width: 120 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
96 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7524-5788-8 (9780752457888)
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Additional editions
Jonathan Falconer
Life as a Battle of Britain Pilot
E-Book
09/2011
The History Press Ltd
€3.99
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Person
JONATHAN FALCONER has written widely on RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War. His published works include Stirling at War, RAF Bomber Airfields of World War Two, The Dambusters Story and Bomber Command Handbook 1939-1945. A senior commissioning editor, he lives in Bradford-on-Avon.