The Sky Suspended - A Fighter Pilot's Story

Zusatztext 'The best airmen are mostly simple people ... but occasionally there arises one! a poet! a philosopher! who succeeds in lending coherent reason to their love ... every airman of our age will feel [Jim Bailey has] given wings to his inmost thoughts' Informationen zum Autor Jim Bailey flew fighters throughout World War II! from the Battle of Britain through Gibraltar and the Anzio beach-head to the landing in the south of France. During his lifetime! Jim Bailey also published a collection of poetry and works of anthropology. Zusammenfassung The Sky Suspended is a unique memoir both of the war in the air and of life on the home front

Product details

• Authors: Jim Bailey, Bailey Jim
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.01.2005
• EAN: 9780747577737
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-7773-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; European History, Biography: general, HISTORY / Military / General, Second World War, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), British Isles, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Air forces and warfare, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), Biography: philosophy and social sciences, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater