What the RAF Airman Took to War

Between July and October 1940, in what became known as the Battle of Britain, a nation held its breath while the pilots of the Royal Air Force battled Hitler''s Luftwaffe in the skies above England. A huge number of airmen lost their lives in this hard-fought episode and in the four years of air campaigns that followed, and those who survived faced terrifying risks; as Prime Minister Winston Churchill put it, ''Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few''. In this beautifully illustrated tribute to ''The Few'', Bill Howard catalogues the objects which were essential to every wartime pilot, from the superstitious good-luck charm to the parachute on which his life might have depended and a wealth of other poignant items relating to his day-to-day existence during the air war against the Nazis.>

Product details

• Authors: Bill Howard, Howard Bill
• Assisted by: Michael H. Wagner (Illustration), Wagner Michael H. (Illustration)
• Publisher: SHIRE
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781784425104
• ISBN: 978-1-78442-510-4
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 140 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; European History, military history, Social & cultural history, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Air forces and warfare, Modern warfare, c 1940 to c 1949, Aviation skills / piloting, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General