Fighter Boys And Bomber Boys Saving Britain 1940 1945
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Fighter Boys And Bomber Boys Saving Britain 1940 1945
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Author : Patrick Bishop
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2013-01-17
Fighter Boys And Bomber Boys Saving Britain 1940 1945 written by Patrick Bishop and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-17 with History categories.
Two of Patrick Bishop’s bestselling books, ‘Fighter Boys’ and ‘Bomber Boys’, are combined in one eBook edition.
Bomber Boys Fighting Back 1940 1945
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Author : Patrick Bishop
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2011-12-08
Bomber Boys Fighting Back 1940 1945 written by Patrick Bishop and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-08 with History categories.
Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan McGregor.
Fighter Boys
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Author : Patrick Bishop
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Fighter Boys written by Patrick Bishop and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In the summer of 1940, the future of Britain and the free world depended on the morale and skill of the young men of Fighter Command. This is their story.
Bomber Boys
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Author : Patrick Joseph Bishop
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Bomber Boys written by Patrick Joseph Bishop and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Bomber pilots categories.
Patrick Bishop looks back at the lives, human realities and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots took during the strategic air-offensive against Germany from 1939-1945.
Fighter Boys
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Author : Patrick Bishop
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2004-07-27
Fighter Boys written by Patrick Bishop and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-27 with History categories.
For 123 days in the summer of 1940, 3,000 youthful airmen in the Royal Air Force fought back against Hitler’s advancing forces with a heroism that astonished the world. Drawing on interviews with scores of surviving pilots as well as diaries and letters never before seen, military historian and journalist Patrick Bishop re-creates with astonishing intimacy and clarity this excruciating, exhilarating war of nerves. In their own words, the pilots describe what it was like to bale out from a stricken plane, to go into battle in the face of overwhelming odds, to hear the screams of a comrade as he went down in flames. With a riveting, taut narrative, Fighter Boys relates how those young heroes changed the course of World War II—and the history of the modern world.
Battle Of Britain
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Author : Patrick Bishop
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-08-29
Battle Of Britain written by Patrick Bishop and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-29 with History categories.
Battle of Britain is a riveting chronicle of the epic struggle between the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe. It is the story of Britain's fight for national survival, from the shock defeat and evacuation from Dunkirk in May/June 1940 to fighter Command's assertion of superiority over the Luftwaffe in mid-September. Battle of Britain takes the reader through that summer day by day, revealing the ongoing battle's impact on flyers and civilians alike. By enhancing his narrative with eye-witness accounts, diary extracts and pilot profiles, Bishop brings the often horrific reality of air combat vividly to life. In Battle of Britain Patrick Bishop has written the definitive account of one of the pivotal moments in twentieth-century British history, and a nation's 'finest hour'.
The Flyer
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Author : Martin Francis
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2011-05-19
The Flyer written by Martin Francis and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-19 with History categories.
Between 1939 and 1945, the British public was spellbound by the martial endeavours and dashing style of the young men of the RAF, especially those with silvery fabric wings sewn above the breast pocket of their glamorous slate-blue uniform. Martin Francis provides the first scholarly study of the place of 'the flyer' in British culture during the Second World War. Examining the lives of RAF personnel, and their popular representation in literary and cinematic texts, he illuminates broader issues of gender, social class, national and racial identities, emotional life, and the creation of a national myth in twentieth-century Britain. In particular, Francis argues that the flyer's relationship to fear, aggression, loss of his comrades, bodily dismemberment, and psychological breakdown reveals broader ambiguities surrounding the dominant understandings of masculinity in the middle decades of the century. Despite his star appeal, cultural representations of the flyer encompassed both the gentle, chivalrous warrior and the uncompromising agent of destruction. Paying particular attention to the romantic universe of wartime aircrew, Francis reveals the extraordinary contrasts of their daily lives: dicing with death in the sky one moment, before sitting down to lunch with wives and children in the next. Male and female experiences during the war were not polarized and antithetical, but were complementary and interrelated, a conclusion which has implications for the history of gender in modern Britain that reach well beyond either the specialized military culture of the wartime RAF or the chronological parameters of the Second World War.
Air Warfare
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Author : Peter Gray
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2015-11-19
Air Warfare written by Peter Gray and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-19 with History categories.
Air Warfare provides an introduction to the subject's theory, history and practice. As well as delivering an up to date look at the strategy, and historiography of air power, Peter Gray explores the theories behind air power and looks at the political, legal and moral dimensions of the application of air power. Topics covered include: - Key military strategists and their legacy - Air power's strategic effects - Leadership, management and command - Tactics, technology and operations The book draws on primary sources including official narratives and published reports, examines key thinkers in the study of air power, and discusses topics such as concepts of warfare as an art or science, cultural perceptions of air power, and the experience of being an airman. With its broad scope and thorough coverage of a range of key topics, Air Warfare takes air power beyond the study of individual campaigns, or controversies, providing a multi-disciplinary approach to air power studies.
The Changing Face Of Aerial Warfare
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Author : Anthony Tucker-Jones
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2018-10-29
The Changing Face Of Aerial Warfare written by Anthony Tucker-Jones and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-29 with History categories.
Can air power alone win a war? That has been the question since the Second World War. Air attacks failed miserably in Vietnam: Operation Linebacker had little effect, while bombing Hanoi just increased hatred for America – yet air strikes in both Iraq and Libya helped bring about regime changes. No-fly zones may have worked in the Balkans, but they might as well not have been there for Saddam Hussein's Iraq. From the Luftwaffe's massed attack on Britain to NATO's interventions in Libya, aerial warfare has changed almost beyond recognition. The piston engine has been replaced by the jet, and in some cases the pilot has been completely replaced by the microchip. Carpet bombing is now a global positioning system and laser pinpointed strikes using precision-guided munitions. Whereas a bomber's greatest enemies were once fighters and flak, the threats have now morphed into smart missiles from half a world away. In this compelling study, celebrated defence expert Anthony Tucker-Jones charts the remarkable evolution of aerial warfare from 1940 to the present day.
The Veterans Tale
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Author : Frances Houghton
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-10
The Veterans Tale written by Frances Houghton and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Reveals how memoirs are rich repositories of information about the ways in which veterans remembered, understood, and recounted their war.