Fighter boys : saving Britain 1940 /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Bishop, Patrick (Patrick Joseph) (συγγραφέας.)
• Μορφή: Βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: London : HarperCollins, c2003.
• Θέματα: Χειριστές πολεμικών αεροσκαφών; Μεγάλη Βρετανία > Ιστορία > 20ός αιώνας.

In the summer of 1940 the defence of Britain rested in the hands of the pilots of Fighter Command. The future of the country and arguably that of the free world depended on the skill and morale of a small group of mostly very young men. Their victory became celebrated as a classic feat of arms. But...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Prologue : The White Hart
• Sportsmen and butchers
• Fighters versus bombers
• "Free of boundaries, free of gravity, free of ties"
• The fatal step
• Winter of uncertainty
• Return to the western front
• The battle of France
• Dunkirk
• Doing it
• Before the storm
• The Channel battle
• The Hun
• Hearth and home
• Attrition
• Brotherhood
• "The day had been a year"-- Autumn sunset
• Rhubarbs and circuses
• Epilogue : The last note.