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Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940
by: Patrick Bishop

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 940
EAN: 9780006532040
ISBN: 0006532047
Label: HarperPerennial
Manufacturer: HarperPerennial
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: March 29, 2004
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Studio: HarperPerennial
Sales Rank: 14891

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- Fitting Testament to the Few
I struggled through the prologue, fearing a book stuffed of the same old cliches, to be pleasantly surprised at having discovered a real gem of a book.

By extensive use of personal contemporary accounts of those actually involved in the fighting, Patrick Bishop succeeds in peeling back the romantic veneer surrounding the aircrew to reveal the harsh reality of their existence in the long, hot Summer of 1940 - the dread of hearing the dispersal telephone ring, the terror & confusion of the dogfight and the utter exhaustion brought about by unrelenting action are laid bare for all to see.

This book doesn't set out to make heroes of the RAF pilots involved in the country's defence in 1940 but it does show the extraordinary ... Read More:

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- Fighter Boys. Saving Britain.
When Britain stood alone in the hectic and volatile Summer of 1940. All that stood between winning and losing our freedom was a handful of brave fighter pilots. These guys came from all walks of life.They never faultered in their belief and determination and bravery that Britain would remain free and fight on against overwhelming odds. Their stories are told with such classical style on every page of this book. It beggers belief that a number of these pilots were only 18 years of age yet they never faultered.A lot of them paid the ultimate sacrifice in the prime of their innocent youth. Read this book with pride and simply admire what these brave men sacrificed for our freedom today.

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- Great great book.
This book is as easy and enjoyable to read as a novel, and draws together the experiences of those that were involved in the Battle Of Britain. It is a very well written book and presents a clear picture of what happened in 1940.

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- Never forget them
Patrick Bishop has written a detailed and poignant account of the dark days of 1940, and the Hurricane and Spitfire pilots who stood between us and the dreaded Nazis!

Many memoir and diary entries are quoted to give us a real impression for the feelings of these young men as they went into battle - not just the gung-ho sentiments of the standard war movies. Particularly touching were those pilots mourning the deaths of close comrades; one man seeing the towel that his roommate had thrown casually on the window sill that morning, little realising that he would never return to pick it up to go for another shower.

The story moves backwards and forwards chronologically a little, but this is almost inevitable with this sort of anecdotal ... Read More:

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- Flightless
The book was like a plane trying to fly but not quite making it. It seemed to have the power to move along the runaway but insufficient to take off. There were moments of great interest but quite often I found it tedious. I really had to persevere with reading the first two chapters. I might have misread it but it appeared to me that the actual Battle of Britain was mostly fought by pilots who were new to the service and were not in the RAF before the war, but there was a lot written about the service before the war. I thought the bibliography was poor in the fact you had to search through the notes to find details of other books on the same subject to read. As I have not read other books on the Battle of Britain I may be too critical.
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