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Warburton's War by: Tony Spooner List Price: £6.99 City Travel Guides Price: £5.49 You Save: £1.50 (21%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 940 EAN: 9780907579434 ISBN: 0907579434 Label: Goodall Publications Ltd Manufacturer: Goodall Publications Ltd Number Of Pages: 204 Publication Date: November 15, 2003 Publisher: Goodall Publications Ltd Studio: Goodall Publications Ltd Sales Rank: 78899 Related Items:
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 Rating: - One of the greatest unsung heroes of WWIIWarburton was an enigma, a hopeless trainee pilot who scraped through to get his wings, made a mess of his early service life, and ended as one of the most highly decorated pilots of the second world war. He went to the same school as Douglas Bader and Guy Gibson, so he obviously had the right stuff injected into him at some point. This man was a true buccaneer of the skies. As a photo-reconnaisance pilot serving in the mediterranean theatre, he has the distiction of never once failing to get either pictures or intelligence of the enemy. Unusually for a phot-recon pilot, he is also credited with nine kills. His relationship with Christine on Malta is pure Hollywood, and sadly ended when he was posted back to Europe, where he was eventually ... Read More: Rating: - Biography of the best - gripping tale of an unknown heroBiography so often ends up as a list of events supplemented by the author's unsubstantiated opinions. Tony Spooner's life of Adrian Warburton avoids both, although with his encyclopaedic knowledge of the subject it would have been so easy to succumb to either. Warburton is Biggles and Lawrence of Arabia and D'Artagnan rolled into one. Gorgeous, enigmatic, headstrong, self-obsessed and tragic. Photographic Reconnaissance pilots in this country have been virtually ignored despite their unparalleled contribution to Allied intelligence in the most dangerous circumstances. Based as he was largely in Malta Warburton would today pass completely unnoticed despite his countless exploits but for Tony Spooner's contribution. If you like adventure, history, ... Read More: |
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