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For Your Freedom and Ours - Hardcover

Olson, Lynne & Cloud Sta

 
9780434008681: For Your Freedom and Ours
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0434008680 ISBN 13: 9780434008681
Verlag: William Heinemann Ltd, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Trained by the Americans in the 1920s, the Polish fighter pilots fought through the defeat of their own country in 1939 and then alongside the French in the fall of France the following year. Defying the orders of the French government to surrender to the Germans, they made their varied ways to Britain, where, far more experienced than their British counterparts, they became the RAF's most successful aces. In the Battle of Britain, flying as 303 Squadron, they downed 126 German planes, more than three times as many as any other squadron in the world. Described by an American bomber pilot as "the best damn fighter squadron in the world", they became heroes to the British and idols to young women. According to Sir Archibald Sinclair, Britain's wartime air force minister, without them "our shortage of trained pilots would have made it impossible to defeat the German air force and so win the Battle". Lynne Olson and Stanley Cloud tell the story of the Polish pilots, focusing on a small group of five of them, from Poland to France to Britain, from defeat to victory in the Battle of Britain, to their betrayal, by Britain and the Allies as the war came to an end.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stanley W. Cloud and Lynne Olson are both journalists. They are authors of The Morrow Boys (a widely-praised book about early US radio journalists, understandably not published in the UK).

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Verlag
William Heinemann Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0434008680
ISBN 13 
9780434008681
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
512
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