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'An extraordinary, deeply moving and astonishingly evocative story. Reading it, you feel you are in the Spitfire with him, at 20,000 feet, chased by a German Heinkel, with your ammunition gone' INDEPENDENT Two months before the outbreak of WWII, seventeen year old Geoffrey Wellum left school to become a fighter pilot with the RAF. He made it through basic training to become the youngest Spitfire pilot in the prestigious 92 Squadron. Thrust into combat almost immediately, Wellum found himselfflying several sorties a day, caught up in terrifying dogfights with German Me 109s. Published more than fifty years afterwards, FIRST LIGHT is Geoffrey Wellum's gripping memoir of his experiences as a fighter pilot during WWII.

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Viking
Language
English
Pages
338

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Subjects
Battle of Britain, Biography, Biography & Autobiography, British Aerial operations, British Personal narratives, Fighter pilots, Great Britain, Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, No. 92, History, Nonfiction, World War II, World War, 1939-1945, Great britain, royal air force, World war, 1939-1945, aerial operations, british, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, british
People
Geoffrey Wellum
Places
England, Great Britain, Malta
Times
1940

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First Light
2009, Penguin Group UK
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Jaktpilot i RAF: en stridsflygare berättar
2006, Historiska media
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London, New York

Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations xi
Prologue xiii
I. Ab Initio I
2. Ad Astra 26
3. Fighter Squadron go
4. First Light I33
5. Mars, God of War I59
6. Brief Encounter I74
7. Parting Day I86
8. Snappers About I99
9. Convoy Pair 209
10. Over There 248
11. White Cliffs 262
12. Twilight 284
13. Beyond the Hill 288
14. Return to the Fray 294
I5. Operation Pedestal 306
I6. White Clouds 330
Epilogue 337.

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Genre
Personal narratives, British., Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.54/4941/092, B
Library of Congress
D786 .W45 2002, D786.W45 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
338 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
338

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Open Library
OL3618526M
ISBN 10
0670912484
LCCN
2002391561
Library Thing
19418
Goodreads
3618341

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