Fighter Boys

For 123 days in the summer of 1940 3000 youthful airmen in the Royal Air Force fought back against Hitler's advancing forces with a heroism that astonished the world. Drawing on interviews with scores of surviving pilots as well as diaries and letters never before seen military historian and journalist Patrick Bishop re-creates with astonishing intimacy and clarity this excruciating exhilarating war of nerves. In their own words the pilots describe what it was like to bale out from a stricken plane to go into battle in the face of overwhelming odds to hear the screams of a comrade as he went down in flames. With a riveting taut narrative <b>Fighter Boys</b> relates how those young heroes changed the course of World War II--and the history of the modern world.