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Title: Fighter Boys: The Battle of Britain, 1940 by Patrick Bishop ISBN: 0-670-03230-1 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 21 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Well-researched, detailed and comprehensive history
Comment: As a modern-era fighter pilot, I devour good books and movies describing the evolution of my trade. There have been many dramatic books and movies created describing the "Battle of Britain" and the events surrounding it, but Fighter Boys goes beyond these. It is an extremely comprehensive non-fiction work, a completely historical, detailed recollection based of incredible research by the author including interviews with the pilots who fought and survived, and the families and letters of those who did not survive. It is liberally sprinkled with the pilot's own words, describing their thoughts and feelings about aerial combat, and relating their own experiences. It also includes some recollections from the German side.
The book even devotes quite a bit at the beginning relating the many and varied experiences of the pilots getting into the fighter cadre - their training and initiations, and the varied backgrounds they had. This can seem tedious to the reader looking for dramatic action, but it is essential to laying the basis for the way Fighter Command evolved from a privileged flying club to a "multi-class" tight-knit organization.
When the fighting actually starts, the first hand accounts add a dramatic flare that fiction can't duplicate. The book gives a comprehensive understanding of the stresses, fears and excitement of aerial combat. A very good read for those serious about the history of air warfare.
Rating: 5
Summary: superb
Comment: I concur with Mr Loveitt. This book is a tragically moving account of how young men from Britain and Allied Nations came together to resist the aerial might of the Nazis. Without them who knows where we would be today? I cannot better Mr Loveitt's summary of the book itself. I was also peculiarly stricken to tears by Mr Bishop's accounts of how the young fliers often died. Yet, and this is where I gasped with admiration, they always kept a smile on their faces. Back in the Mess they would behave as if they were schoolboys again! They threw rolls at each other and joked as if they were in summer camp (if they had such things which they did not!). Surely there is a lesson here for modern day service personnel serving in the world's trouble spots? Could they not also laugh more? War is grim enouigh without losing the ability to laugh at oneself. I disagree with the idea this book should win a Pulizter. I say put it in for a Nobel Prize. Yes, it is that good!
Rating: 5
Summary: brilliant
Comment: here are some words to describe this book: brilliant, moving, wonderful. sensitive. shorn of gung ho cliches about war mr bishop takes us back sixty years to the brief spell when the few young pilots of the raf were all that was standing between a world ruled by hitler and his nazi cronies. these were brave young men and mr bishop's book is a superb tribute to them. he spares us no pain as he describes the fear of battle and the terror of being burnt alive in a cockpit and then the relief and the british humour as those lucky enough to return sat in the mess eating their well deserved traditional british dinner of fried fish and chips and piles of thickly buttered white bread. it made me wonder whether we as americans for all our talk about careful eating and our disdain for al things fried should learn from this! the heroes of the raf also often smoked!
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Title: First Light by Geoffrey Wellum ISBN: 047142627X Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 14 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Flyboys: A True Story of Courage by James Bradley ISBN: 0316105848 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Woodbine Red Leader : A P-51 Mustang Ace in the Mediterranean Theater by George Loving ISBN: 089141813X Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Most Dangerous Enemy: A History of the Battle of Britain by Stephen Bungay ISBN: 1854108018 Publisher: Aurum Pr Ltd Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: An Ace of the Eighth : An American Fighter Pilot's Air War in Europe by Norman J. Fortier ISBN: 0891418067 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 29 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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