Fighter Boys by Patrick Bishop

Saving Britain 1940

A vivid, human-centered account of the young RAF fighter pilots who defended Britain in 1940, blending first-hand testimony, operational detail and archival photographs to portray their training, daily routines and the terror and exhilaration of aerial combat in Hurricanes and Spitfires as they faced the Luftwaffe; the book captures individual acts of courage, the heavy toll of loss, and the tense, chaotic struggle that helped decide the course of the war.

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