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Fighter Pilot: A Personal Record of the Campaign in France 1939-1940 - Rilegato

Richey, Paul Henry Mills; Richey, Diana

 
9780304358502: Fighter Pilot: A Personal Record of the Campaign in France 1939-1940
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ISBN 10: 0304358509 ISBN 13: 9780304358502
Casa editrice: Cassell, 2001

Sinossi

"I have read no book approaching this...in the vividness of its descriptions of air fighting...exhilarating and profoundly moving."--Daily Telegraph. Originally published anonymously in 1941, and republished eight times since, this was the first and finest story of a World War Two fighter pilot. The author's personal journal takes us into the action of the air battles preceding the fall of France. Beginning the day his squadron arrived in France, Richey's memoirs recount the unnerving lull right before the violence--and the fatigue of the Blitzkrieg, with its non-stop combat. 6 1/8 X 9 1/4.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Born in 1916, he was commissioned into the Royal Air Force in 1937. Severely wounded in action in the Battle of France, he returned to combat flying in England in 1941, leading a Spitfire squadron on offensive sweeps over occupied France. In 1942 he was sent to the India/Burma theatre to revise their fighter tactics. Invalided home in early 1944, he was later posted to SHAEF Belgium, and ended the war as a Wing Commander Operations in the War Room of the 2nd Tactical Air Force in Germany. A dedicated Europhile, he was working on a history of Anglo-French relations when he died in 1969.

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Editore
Cassell
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0304358509
ISBN 13 
9780304358502
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
175
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