Bill Howard

What the RAF Airman Took to War (eBook, PDF)

Illustrator: Wagner, Michael H.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784420789
• Artikelnr.: 44868147

Autorenporträt

Bill Howard is a military historian based in the United States. He has written several books and many articles on military and social history.

Michael H. Wagner is a photographer based in Albany, New York.