Fighter Boys and Bomber Boys: Saving Britain 1940-1945. Patrick Bishop

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      Contents

       Title Page

Copyright

       Fighter Boys: Saving Britain 1940

       Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945

       About the Author

       Also by Patrick Bishop

       About the Publisher

      Fighter Boys

      Saving Britain 1940

      Patrick Bishop

      

       Dedication

       To Kelly and Bill

      Contents

       Title Page

Dedication

Preface

Prologue: The White Hart

1 Sportsmen and Butchers

2 Fighters versus Bombers

3 ‘Free of Boundaries, Free of Gravity, Free of Ties’

4 The Fatal Step

5 Winter of Uncertainty

6 Return to the Western Front

7 The Battle of France

8 Dunkirk

9 Doing It

       10 Before the Storm

       11 The Channel Battle

       12 The Hun

       13 Hearth and Home

       14 Attrition

       15 Brotherhood

       16 ‘The Day Had Been a Year’

       17 СКАЧАТЬ