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Title: Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader, Legless Ace of the Battle of Britain (Bluejacket Books) by Paul Brickhill ISBN: 1-55750-222-6 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: November, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Most inspiring read....
Comment: It's been 17 years since I first read this book and, just as I'm on the verge of a family myself, it's damned good to see it reprinted. There's nothing about this book I wouldn't recommend. Without glorifying war itself, the true story of this WWII ace truly captures the will and tenacity of men whose nations are in conflict.
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutley Amazing!
Comment: People would wonder as why, me, as a girl of 15 would be reading a book about War. I love reading the war stories, and watching the war films as much as i love reading and watching horse things. Although I have a planned career in the Olympics with my horse, i've thought in the past few years, that if i weren't intersted in horses, i would go into the Air Force. My brother is obsessed with World War II, and I must admit it grew on me! Douglas Bader is an amazing man, with great courage and determination. Paul Brickhill wrote Reach for the Sky really well. Some of my favourite parts are (from the 1954 book)
"242 Squadron were changing their aeroplanes, becoming the second squadron to get Hurricane Mark II's, which were faster, had more power, and the new and better VHF raido. Now in the routine of unexiting readiness, Bader sometimes swashbuckled about, jabbing his thumb nosalgically on an imaginary gun button, with an accompanying 'rasberry' to signify the rattling guns" I just found that hilarious.
Another of my favourites is:
"Once in mid- Channel on the way out a new boy in 145 called: 'Hallo, Red Leader. Yellow Two calling. I can't turn my oxygen on.' A brooding silence followed, The voice plaintivley again: 'Hallo, Red Leader. Can you hear me? I can't turn on my oxygen."
Then Turner's Canadian voice, ferociously sarcastic: "What the hell d'you want me to do? Get out and turn it on for you? Go home!' No one made that mistake again."
You have to feel sorry for the boy, but Turner was funny!
Douglas Bader was someone who will never give up. He'll just keep on trying, and trying, and trying, until he gets it. He's a man of great wisdom, and should be greatly remembered through out history.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the great WWII stories
Comment: Douglas Bader was in the peacetime RAF but lost both legs in a crash. After a miserable few years on civvie street, the war came along and he volunteered. Not only was he accepted, with two prosthetic legs and several years older than most of "the Few", but the RAF returned him to fighter-plane duty. He became a leading ace until he was shot down, and then he became such a pain to the Germans that they had to take his legs away from him to stop him from escaping.
You may remember Brickhill as the author of The Great Escape. This is another spellbinding yarn. Note however that it is more of an inspirational story than a serious biography. In the days when youngsters were more literate than they are today, it would have been called a "boy's book."
My son-in-law (who is English) gave an earlier version of this book to me for a Christmas present. He had to search all the used-book websites to find it. I'm delighted (and so is he) that it's available again. Bluejacket Books are distributed in the U.S. by Naval Institute Press, so I'm sure that this is an excellent production and not a cheap reprint.
Give it to the "boy" on your list, whether he's eight or eighty.
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Title: Douglas Bader: A Biography of the Legendary World War II Fighter Pilot (Airlife Classics) by John Frayn Turner ISBN: 1840372443 Publisher: Airlife Pub Ltd Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Fight for the Sky: The Story of the Spitfire & Hurricane by Douglas Bader ISBN: 0850529921 Publisher: Pen & Sword Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Great Escape by Paul Brickhill ISBN: 0449210685 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Dam Busters (Pan Grand Strategy Series) by Paul Brickhill ISBN: 0330376446 Publisher: Pan Macmillan Pub. Date: 22 January, 1999 |
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Title: Wing Leader by J.E. Johnson ISBN: 0345304721 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: September, 1990 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
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