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A Willingness to Die by: Brian Kingcome City Travel Guides Price: £9.99 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 940.544941092 EAN: 9780752440248 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0752440241 Label: The History Press Manufacturer: The History Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 248 Publication Date: September 01, 2006 Publisher: The History Press Studio: The History Press Sales Rank: 78197 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Modest man, Extraordinary ExperiencesHaving read a few pilots' biographies it is easy to see these fall into a similar vein; namely signing-up, training, combat and the consequences from combat and escaping death (where many others did not). This is a little different in that Brian Kingcome added more of his personal life as an overlay well before, during and well after his military flying days. The first line typifies this with the statement "Anyone looking for a chronological order of events won't find it here." It is therefore much the better for it, and it is an enjoyable read of a modest man. Covering from his school days through well into his later business life, it is well presented with many anecdotes. It included his somewhat unlucky scrapes with ... Read More: Rating: - A Fitting memorial to one of the FewWhen I bought A Willingness to Die it was a bit of a gamble for me,usually I opted for books on the American fighter aces of World War II,and had even read books on the German fighter aces of the Great War.The pilots of the Battle of Britain had been overlooked by me,why?,i'm not sure,but strange given the fact I only live a short distance from Biggin Hill,an airfield immediately linked with such an important stage of WWII. Brian Kingcome's book changed all that,his story was put together by Peter Ford using material that Kingcome had been working on right up to his sudden death in 1994. Where this book scores highly is with its content,many wartime fighter pilots memoirs tend to follow the same format,taking the reader from the pilots training ... Read More: |
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