Flight Lieutenant David Crook DFC

Spitfire Pilot (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A brilliant first-hand account of the life of a fighter pilot" in World War II (The Spectator). Spitfire Pilot was written in 1940 in the heat of battle, when the RAF stood alone against the might of Hitler's Third Reich. It is a tremendous personal account of one of the fiercest and most idealized air conflicts-the Battle of Britain-seen through the eyes of a pilot of the famous 609 Squadron, which shot down over one hundred planes in that epic contest. Often hopelessly outnumbered, David Crook and his colleagues, in their state-of-the-art Spitfires, committed acts of unimaginable bravery against the Messerschmitts and the Junkers. Many did not make it-and Crook describes the absence they leave in the squadron with great poignancy. Includes an introduction by historian Richard Overy

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Grub Street Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 191
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781909808799
• Artikelnr.: 40324933

Autorenporträt

Flight Lieutenant David Crook, DFC was an airman in the legendary 609 Squadron-one of the most successful RAF units in the Battle of Britain.