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Bluebirds, A Battle of Britain thriller

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of soft covers and spine, corners very slightly bent, spine uncreased, not price clipped (no published price), gift inscription to title page, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks unread. 251pp. Four ordinary young men are thrown together as Hitler plunges Europe into its darkest hours. Their fates will be decided in the most cruel and extraordinary way. Andrew Francis and Gerry Donaldson were born on different sides of the Atlantic just before the Great War. Together with the mildly psychotic Bryan Hale, they fly Spitfires through the summer of 1940. Invasion is imminent and England faces almost certain defeat after Hitler's unstoppable armies slice through France to the Channel coast. Fighter Command risks total destruction as they rise to meet the Fuhrer's Luftwaffe hordes in what would become The Battle of Britain. Based on true stories and events, Melvyn Fickling's impressive debut novel 'Bluebirds' recasts Winston Churchill's 'Few' in the darker shadow of their desperate times, fighting against terrifying odds with the ever present expectation of violent death. Gerry, the first American to fire guns in anger against the Nazis, fights in spite of American isolationism, relinquishing his US citizenship and becoming a reluctant propaganda tool for the Air Ministry along the way. Newly married Andrew fights to protect his pregnant wife. Bryan fights for the simple pleasure of the kill. Vincent Drew, broken by childhood abuse, tumbles into their world and tears it apart. The first in a series of historical novels, 'Bluebirds' is meticulously researched and faithfully evokes the terrifying and often heart rending experiences both in the air and on the ground during the crucial first year of the Second World War as Britain strove to keep the German wolves from the door. Quite a scarce book. Nº de ref. del artículo: 008874

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