First Light: Original Edition - Rilegato

Wellum, Geoffrey

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ISBN 10: 0670912484 ISBN 13: 9780670912483

Casa editrice: Viking, 2002

Riassunto

The gripping account of 'Boy' Wellum, one of the youngest fighter pilots in the Battle of Britain. Enlisting in the Air Force weeks before the outbreak of WWII, Geoffrey Wellum found himself fighting the Germans over the English Channel, a Spitfire pilot at just 18 years of age. The reader follows Geoffrey through early (disastrous!) training sessions, his first solo flights, his first battle & a harrowing account of being lost over the sea. He describes the unique, exhilarating experience of flying a Spitfire and, also, the terrible toll that it takes on the young mind and body. At the age of 21 he is worn out physically and mentally. His war is at an end ...

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L'autore:

When he was just 17, Geoffrey Wellum joined the RAF in August 1939 and served with 92 Squadron throughout the Battle of Britain. In 1942 he went to 65 Squadron at Debden as a Flight Commander and from there to Malta later that year. He led 8 Spitfires off HMS Furious to Luqa during Operation Pedestal. He now lives in Mullion in Cornwall and has three children.

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• Editore: Viking
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0670912484
• ISBN 13: 9780670912483
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 352