THOSE WHO FALL — A Bomber Pilots War Recalled —
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Characteristics
| ISBN-13 | 9780593014165 |
| ISBN-10 | 0593014162 |
| Book cover finish(es) | Hardcover ( rounded spine binding ) Dust jacket |
| Condition | VG |
| Author(s) | John Muirhead |
| Publisher |
TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS LTD 61-63 Uxbridge Road, London W5 5SA TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS (AUSTRALIA) PTY LTD 15-23 Helles Avenue, Moorebank NSW 2170 TRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS (NZ) LTD Chr Moselle and Waipareira Aves, Henderson, Auckland Published 1988 by Bantam Press, a division of Transworld Publishers Ltd Copyright John Muirhead 1986 |
| Published date | 1988 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Size | 15,5 x 24 cm |
Description
More than forty years after the end of the Second World War, Those Who Fall offers the reader an unexpected and astonishing experience.
As a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber pilot, John Muirhead led thirty-five missions into northern Italy, Germany and Bulgaria until ultimately shot down and taken prisoner. His recreation of those flying years and of his time as a POW is a stunning amalgamation of ravaging horror and silent, surreal images; of raw, tumultuous memory and elegantly paced narrative; of lightening humour and measured reflection.
Seldom has a reader been made to feel terror so vividly as in Those Who Fall. Rarely has a reader taken to the skies so thrillingly. And never before has a reader felt so closely attached to the numbing fear, boredom, eerie beauty and sense of dislocation that permeated each day of a pilot's war.