What the RAF Airman Took to War

What the RAF Airman Took to War
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9781784420772
ISBN-13 : 1784420778
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Book Synopsis What the RAF Airman Took to War by : Bill Howard

Download or read book What the RAF Airman Took to War written by Bill Howard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between July and October 1940, in what became known as the Battle of Britain, a nation held its breath while the pilots of the Royal Air Force battled Hitler's Luftwaffe in the skies above England. A huge number of airmen lost their lives in this hard-fought episode and in the four years of air campaigns that followed, and those who survived faced terrifying risks; as Prime Minister Winston Churchill put it, 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few'. In this beautifully illustrated tribute to 'The Few', Bill Howard catalogues the objects which were essential to every wartime pilot, from the superstitious good-luck charm to the parachute on which his life might have depended and a wealth of other poignant items relating to his day-to-day existence during the air war against the Nazis.


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