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Author : Chaz Bowyer
Release : 1984
Genre : World War, 1939-1945
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Book Synopsis Royal Air Force Handbook, 1939-1945 by : Chaz Bowyer
Download or read book Royal Air Force Handbook, 1939-1945 written by Chaz Bowyer. This book was released on 1984. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chaz Bowyer
Release : 1996-06-03
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 439/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Royal Air Force, 1939–1945 by : Chaz Bowyer
Download or read book The Royal Air Force, 1939–1945 written by Chaz Bowyer. This book was released on 1996-06-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines every aspect of The Royal Air Force, including organisation, statistics and operations during World War Two.
Author : Daniel J. March
Release : 2000
Genre : Airplanes, Military
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 912/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis British Warplanes of World War II by : Daniel J. March
Download or read book British Warplanes of World War II written by Daniel J. March. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated analysis of all World War II aircraft in British military service, including full descriptions and specifications, hundreds of action photos and highly accurate, full-color artwork.
Author : Martin W. Bowman
Release : 2003-01-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 762/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The USAAF Handbook, 1939-1945 by : Martin W. Bowman
Download or read book The USAAF Handbook, 1939-1945 written by Martin W. Bowman. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work deals with the many aspects of the US Army Air Force's organization and equipment in World War II. It includes everything from global strategies to command structures, flight training to combat aircraft, uniforms and equipment to health and welfare, morale, medals and awards, to a who's who of the Army Air Forces. Detailed listings also cover air force strengths and deployments, group and squadron codes, Medal of Honor recipients, and casualties. Illustrated with more than 150 photographs and line drawings, the book should appeal to anyone with an interest in the world's greatest air force and the key part it played in winning World War II.
Author : Martin Francis
Release : 2011-05-19
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 966/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Flyer by : Martin Francis
Download or read book The Flyer written by Martin Francis. This book was released on 2011-05-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1939 and 1945, the British public was spellbound by the martial endeavours and dashing style of the young men of the RAF, especially those with silvery fabric wings sewn above the breast pocket of their glamorous slate-blue uniform. Martin Francis provides the first scholarly study of the place of 'the flyer' in British culture during the Second World War. Examining the lives of RAF personnel, and their popular representation in literary and cinematic texts, he illuminates broader issues of gender, social class, national and racial identities, emotional life, and the creation of a national myth in twentieth-century Britain. In particular, Francis argues that the flyer's relationship to fear, aggression, loss of his comrades, bodily dismemberment, and psychological breakdown reveals broader ambiguities surrounding the dominant understandings of masculinity in the middle decades of the century. Despite his star appeal, cultural representations of the flyer encompassed both the gentle, chivalrous warrior and the uncompromising agent of destruction. Paying particular attention to the romantic universe of wartime aircrew, Francis reveals the extraordinary contrasts of their daily lives: dicing with death in the sky one moment, before sitting down to lunch with wives and children in the next. Male and female experiences during the war were not polarized and antithetical, but were complementary and interrelated, a conclusion which has implications for the history of gender in modern Britain that reach well beyond either the specialized military culture of the wartime RAF or the chronological parameters of the Second World War.
