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• On a wing and a prayer

  Early this year, at a former clandestine aviator's memorial service, one of his daughters read a poem by John Magee about the delights of flying: a pilot could 'put out my hand and touch the face of God'. This ecstasy is now half forgotten, when trip ... (read full critics)

  spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  This is one of the few wartime pilot's memoirs that really touches me. Most of them just demonstrate the bright side of a successful wartime pilot's life. They talked about thrills of combat actions, excitements and the glory of their results, horsing around here and there, slight sorrow for lost ... (continue)

  This is one of the few wartime pilot's memoirs that really touches me. Most of them just demonstrate the bright side of a successful wartime pilot's life. They talked about thrills of combat actions, excitements and the glory of their results, horsing around here and there, slight sorrow for lost friends and maybe a little doubt and fright about their own fates.

  This book does not do those things. It is much deeper. It comes from the truthful reflection of a common pilot who was threw in to the Battle of Britain at the age of 19. The readers would find uncertainty, confusions, doubts, fatalism, and deep grieves for the friends and himself.

  This is probably the real life of a wartime fighter pilot, not what all the aces' memoirs want us to believe.

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• English Books
• Audio Cassette 2 Pages
• Edition: Abridged Ed
• ISBN-10: 014180484X
• ISBN-13: 9780141804842
• Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks
• Pub date: May 01, 2003
• Dimensions: 839 mm x 710 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Others and eBook

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