Buy this book on-line LYALL**, GAVIN - Selected and edited by: : Freedom's Battle - VOLUME 2: The War in the Air 1939-1945LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1968. ISBN No ISBN.
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'Dear Johnnie - I did not know that you could read and write!' So one famous fighter pilot to another . . . Douglas Bader introducing Johnnie Johnson's 'Wing Leader'.Fortunately many a Johnnie-Head-in
-Air could indeed write.As Gavin Lyall points out in his Preface,'in too many famous actions,particularly towards the beginning of the war,hardly anybody survived to tell the personal story'.
Nevertheless there is a rich harvest of personal experience from which Gavin Lyall has selected the choicest specimens.He has done so with the discrimination and sympathy of one who is a former fighter pilot and air correspondent.
All the great dramas of the air war are here described by the men in the British and Commonwealth Ar Forces who actually did the fighting in the desperate days of the fall of France; during the Battle of Britain; throughout the agony of Bomber Command; over the high seas,Malta,the desert battles,and in the wrestling-match with the Japanese.Nor are the songs of the airmen forgotten - cynical,sardonic,raw.
For those who lived through the Second World War this anthology will revive memories of a daring and an endurance which,in retrospect,seem beyond the bounds of possibility.But this is how it was.
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