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Bought for a friend, who seems pleased
He also tended to stay with the view of whoever was carrying the story at the time rather than using multiple points of view.
With the speed and confusion of combat it seemed normal to think you were fighting a machine rather than a man.
But it gets pogressively darker as the battle for air supmacy is shown to degenenerate into a cynical conflict of sacrificial h... Read More
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I lost my copy in a recent house move so was delighted to be able to obtain an as new copy from infinite books for a very rea... Read More
Competitiveness
If you enjoy this title i would thoroughly recommed geoffrey wellums recent title and also stapme - the biography of 603 squadron pilot.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Drawing on many first hand accounts of the battle this book draws the reader into the very heart of the conflict a warts and all account of the glamour and the horror of aerial combat
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Good book if you live near biggin hill real people talking not just someone making up a story to sell a book
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Most books about the battle of britain fail to convey what it was like to be a fighter boy in 1940
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Fighter boys does not fall into these traps
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If you enjoy this title i would thoroughly recommed geoffrey wellums recent title and also stapme the biography of 603 squadron pilot
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Sadly like so many of his contempoaries jean offenberg died flying
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I would say what a waste but the fighter boys would disagree
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Many memoir and diary entries are quoted to give us a real impression for the feelings of these young men as they went into battle not just the gungho sentiments of the standard war movies