FIGHTER BOYS
Written by Patrick Bishop
Published by Harper Collins
in 2003
ISBN: 0002571692
- Categorised in:
- MILITARY
- WORLD WAR II
- AVIATION
- AIR FORCE
- RAF
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
FIGHTER BOYS
Written by Patrick Bishop.
Stock no. 1610222
c..
2003.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Saving Britain 1940. What it was to be a fighter pilot, in war, peace and love. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. xiii and 434 pages including index. ISBN: 0002571692. Reprint. Spine bumped. Light page browning.
FIGHTER BOYS
Written by Patrick Bishop.
Stock no. 1608903
1st.
2003.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.
Saving Britain 1940. What it was to be a fighter pilot, in war, peace and love. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w plates. xiii and 434 pages including index. ISBN: 0002571692. Spine bumped. Pages lightly browned. Wrapper edge creased.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- Prologue: The White Hart
- 1. Sportsmen and Butchers
- 2. Fighters versus Bombers
- 3. 'Free of Boundaries, Free of Gravity, Free of Ties'
- 4. The Fatal Step
- 5. Winter of Uncertainty
- 6. Return to the Western Front
- 7. The Battle of France
- 8. Dunkirk
- 9. Doing It
- 10. Before the Storm
- 11. The Channel Battle
- 12. The Hun
- 13. Hearth and Home
- 14. Attrition
- 15. Brotherhood
- 16. 'The Day Had Been a Year'
- 17. Autumn Sunset
- 18. Rhubarbs and Circuses
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index