Bomber Boys: Fighting Back, 1940-1945
- ISBN-10
- 0753156768
- ISBN-13
- 9780753156766
- Series
- Bomber Boys
- Category
- Bomber pilots
- Pages
- 560
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Author
- Patrick Joseph Bishop
Description
Patrick Bishop looks back at the lives, human realities and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots took during the strategic air-offensive against Germany from 1939-1945.
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