Flight 777 - The Mystery of Leslie Howard

On 1 June 1943 Flight 777, a Douglas DC-3, en route from Lisbon to Britain, was shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German aircraft. Among the dead was the actor Leslie Howard, who had returned from Hollywood to England to help the British war effort.

About the author

Ian Colvin was an eminent British journalist who had worked in pre-war Berlin where he made secret contacts with anti-Nazis. Hitler's regime expelled him from Germany but, in the 1950s, he was able to use some of those contacts to help him investigate the reasons behind the shooting down of Flight 777.

Summary

Reveals the secret wartime role of actor Leslie Howard, star of The Scarlet Pimpernel and Gone with the Wind.

Product details

• Authors: Ian Colvin
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2020
• EAN: 9781526766793
• ISBN: 978-1-5267-6679-3
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 247 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 446 g
• Illustrations: 32 black and white illustrations
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; Deutschland, 1940 bis 1949 n. Chr., Luftwaffe und Kriegsführung, Moderne Kriegsführung