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Product Identifiers

PublisherCassell Guides

ISBN-100304366242

ISBN-139780304366248

eBay Product ID (ePID)2506567

Product Key Features

Original LanguageFrench

Book TitleBig Show : the Greatest Pilot's Story of World War II

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicMilitary / World War II

Publication Year2007

IllustratorYes

GenreHistory

AuthorPierre Clostermann

Book SeriesCassell Military Paperbacks Ser.

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight10.1 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2005-482318

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal940.544944092

SynopsisThis is absolutely the best fighter pilot memoir of World War II. Pierre Closterman was a Free French fighter ace and his account of the air war over Britain and France has justly become famous. It contains everything one could wish for: wonderfully obse, This is absolutely the best fighter pilot memoir of World War II. Pierre Closterman was a Free French fighter ace and his account of the air war over Britain and France has justly become famous. It contains everything one could wish for: wonderfully observed descriptions of wartime Britain, frighteningly evocative stories of in-the-cockpit action, an amazing cast of characters, and all the drama and bravery of a man fighting a desperate war thousands of feet above the ground. An undeniable classic and a true page-turner., Pierre Clostermann was a Free French fighter ace whose incredible account of the air war over Britain and France has become one of the most famous memoirs of the Second World War. Over the course of five years Clostermann engaged in hundreds of dog-fights, shot down scores of Luftwaffe planes, escorted American bombers on some of the most dangerous raids of the war, and watched many of his friends falling to their deaths in the skies over the Channel. The Big Show contains everything one could wish for in a war memoir: wonderfully observed descriptions of wartime Britain, frighteningly evocative stories of in-the-cockpit action, an amazing cast of characters, and all the drama and bravery of a man fighting a desperate war thousands of feet above the ground.

LC Classification NumberD786