Wings

Product Description

The Royal Air Force is synonymous with its heroic achievements in the summer of 1940, when Winston Churchill's 'famous few'
- the Hurricane & Spitfire pilots of RAF Fighter Command
- held Goering's Luftwaffe at bay in the Battle of Britain, thereby changing the course of the war. For much of the twentieth century, warplanes were fixed in the world's imagination, a symbol of the perils & excitements of the modern era. But within the space of a hundred years, military aviation has morphed from the exotic to the mundane. An activity which was charged with danger
- the domain of the daring
- is now carried out by computers & pilotless drones. Aviators have always seemed different to soldiers & sailors
- more adventurous, questing & imaginative. Their stories gripped the public & in both wars & air aces dominated each side's propaganda, capturing hearts & dreams. Writing with the verve, passion & the sheer narrative aplomb familiar to many thousands of readers from his bestselling Second World War aerial histories, Fighter Boys & Bomber Boys, Patrick Bishop's Wings is a rich & compelling account of military flying from its heroic early days to the present.