ENGLISH

The Mammoth book of fighter pilots

By Jon E Lewis; Julian Jenkins

Book information

Publisher
Robinson
Year
2002
ISBN
1841193461, 9781841193465
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
637 kB (651970 bytes)
Pages
\0
Library
usenet tech
Time added
2013-03-30 20:00:00

Description

This work presents the 20th-century's air battles in the words of those who fought them. Beginning with the jousts over the Western Front in 1914 up to the furious jet-driven sorties over Bosnia in 1999, these accounts give an experience of combat dogfights in the shell-blasted skies of war. It is about a form of combat that has changed beyond recognition. It gives details of the dauntingly high mortality rates among airmen, and insights into many other facets of a pilot's life from training to bailing out over enemy territory, what it was like to be interned and an account of being shot down in a blazing spitfire

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