Patrick Bishop

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Air Force Blue

The RAF in World War Two - Spearhead of Victory

Beschreibung

In a return to sweeping social history of wartime, Patrick Bishop - author of bestselling Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys - explores the lives and wartime experience of thousands of men and women who served in all units of the airforce. To mark the centenary of the RAF in 2018.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins UK / William Collins
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 154mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9780007433131
• ISBN-10: 0007433131
• Artikelnr.: 43613252

Rezensionen

'This is a terrifically readable, authoritative book that told me many fascinating things I did not know' Max Hastings, Sunday Times

'As a former war correspondent with more than 30 years' experience, Bishop brings journalistic strengths to his second career as a popular historian: an easily readable and exciting writing style, a knowledge of what fighting means to those at the sharp end, a nose for the nub of the story, and an admirable compassion for the victims of war on all sides...a book that at once educates, explains, and excites' BBC History magazine, Book of the Month

'Monumental ... after Bishop's pilot's eye views of the war in Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys, Air Force Blue counts as a publishing event. It won't disappoint" The Times

'Full of excellent and vivid stories, this terrifically readable and authoritative book tells the dramatic story of the RAF during the Second World War' The Sunday Times

'Compelling ... Mr Bishop has an enormous tale to tell as he leads up to 1939 and six years of formative war...what Mr. Bishop does so well is to show how the RAF came to be such a distinctive and effective force' Country Life

'This meticulously compiled survey sets out to combine encomium with a series of unblinkered evaluations' TLS

'Succeeds in mining new and startling insights' The Times