- Battle of Britain, Biography, Biography & Autobiography, British Aerial operations
'An extraordinary, deeply moving and astonishingly evocative story. Reading it, you feel you are in the Spitfire with him, at 20,000 feet, chased by a German Heinkel, with your ammunition gone' INDEPENDENT Two months before the outbreak of WWII, seventeen year old Geoffrey Wellum left school to become a fighter pilot with the RAF.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and resolved.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Geoffrey Wellum
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 338
- Publisher
- Viking, Historiska media, Penguin Group UK
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9789185507115
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