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Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940

Author: Patrick Bishop
Publisher: HarperPerennial
Category: Book

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

30 reviews
Sales Rank: 3891

Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 464
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.3

ISBN: 0006532047
Dewey Decimal Number: 940
EAN: 9780006532040
ASIN: 0006532047

Publication Date: March 29, 2004
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5 out of 5 stars

Fighter Boys. Saving Britain. December 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

When Britain stood alone in the hectic and volatile Summer of 1940. All that stood between winning and losing our freedom was a handful of brave fighter pilots. These guys came from all walks of life.They never faultered in their belief and determination and bravery that Britain would remain free and fight on against overwhelming odds. Their stories are told with such classical style on every page of this book. It beggers belief that a number of these pilots were only 18 years of age yet they never faultered.A lot of them paid the ultimate sacrifice in the prime of their innocent youth. Read this book with pride and simply admire what these brave men sacrificed for our freedom today.

5 out of 5 stars

Great great book. April 17, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful

This book is as easy and enjoyable to read as a novel, and draws together the experiences of those that were involved in the Battle Of Britain. It is a very well written book and presents a clear picture of what happened in 1940.

4 out of 5 stars

Never forget them June 23, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

Patrick Bishop has written a detailed and poignant account of the dark days of 1940, and the Hurricane and Spitfire pilots who stood between us and the dreaded Nazis!

Many memoir and diary entries are quoted to give us a real impression for the feelings of these young men as they went into battle - not just the gung-ho sentiments of the standard war movies. Particularly touching were those pilots mourning the deaths of close comrades; one man seeing the towel that his roommate had thrown casually on the window sill that morning, little realising that he would never return to pick it up to go for another shower.

The story moves backwards and forwards chronologically a little, but this is almost inevitable with this sort of anecdotal history.

An enjoyable read and a good testament to these bravest of men...

3 out of 5 stars

Flightless July 13, 2005
5 out of 11 found this review helpful

The book was like a plane trying to fly but not quite making it. It seemed to have the power to move along the runaway but insufficient to take off. There were moments of great interest but quite often I found it tedious. I really had to persevere with reading the first two chapters. I might have misread it but it appeared to me that the actual Battle of Britain was mostly fought by pilots who were new to the service and were not in the RAF before the war, but there was a lot written about the service before the war. I thought the bibliography was poor in the fact you had to search through the notes to find details of other books on the same subject to read. As I have not read other books on the Battle of Britain I may be too critical.
Not a book to buy, but to borrow or accept as a gift.

5 out of 5 stars

brilliant February 18, 2005
3 out of 13 found this review helpful

To dub this a great book is a mad 7that I could find a book telling me anything new about the Battle of Britain. Mr Bishop showed I was sadly awry. I dont want to spoil it for others by giving away the plot. Suffice to say Mr Bishop has found ingenious ways to reheat old stories and make them exciting. he is fine historian and once he brushes up on his grammar and punctuation will be up there amongst the greats like the late AJP Taylor andJack Plumb.