FIGHTER PILOT — A PERSONAL RECORD OF THE CAMPAIGN IN FRANCE — 1939-1940
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Characteristics
| ISBN-10 | 0710600003 |
| Book cover finish(es) | Hardcover ( round back binding ) |
| Special Features | • Dust jacket |
| Condition | Like NEW |
| Author(s) | Paul Richey |
| Publisher | Jane's Publishing Company Limited |
| Number of pages | 142 |
| Published date |
First printed in 1941 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Size | 16 x 24 x 1.5 cm |
| Categorie(s) | • AVIATION MILITAIRE • SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE • BIOGRAPHIES |
Description
“The first and finest story of a Fighter Pilot in World War II” – Group Captain Peter Townsend, DSO, DFC
“One of the most moving pieces of contemporary war literature I have yet seen printed” – Peter Quennell in the New Statesman & Nation
“I have read no book approaching Fighter Pilot… in the vividness of its descriptions of air fighting. His story is exhilarating and profoundly moving” – Peterborough in The Daily Telegraph
“One of the best books to come out of the war” – Noel Monks in the Daily Mail
“The war’s best book” – Sunday Graphic
“One of the most graphic and exciting books of what it is like to fly a fighter plane in combat that the war has produced” – Overseas Daily Mail
“Perhaps the most thrilling and instructive book ever written about aerial warfare” – Times Trade Supplement
“It would be difficult to overpraise this excellent book… A model of what a book on air fighting ought to be” – Flight
“I consider Fighter Pilot the most vividly descriptive book ever written about air fighting during World War II… The glorious deeds of the pilots of 1 and 73 Squadrons with the Expeditionary Force in France will rank in history with the grim heroism of the men who fought and won the Battle of Britain” – Wing Commander Ira (“Taffy”) Jones, DSO, MC, DFC, MM