Heroes All

Veteran airmen of different nationalities tell their stories of service in the Second World War

By: Steve Bond

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Hardcover | 31 August 2010

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For years, Steve Bond has been interviewing and recording veterans from all sides of the conflict, including air and ground crew. His aim was to transmit their engaging stories faithfully to a wider public. He spoke to British and German, German and Russian, British and Italian, American and German, who all shared the same piece of sky at the same time, in a sense, re-uniting them, sometimes also literally. This is not a book about the rights and wrongs of war, nor the strategies of the military commanders. It is about the experiences and feelings of those in the front line charged with delivery of said strategy. It deals with the sharp end of key campaigns, but also the less 'glamorous' sides of service life - selection, training, aircraft ferrying, etc. This is all original material and the stories of the veterans selected (some of them household names) are not edited but put in context by Bond, with overviews and annotations. The result gives the reader an up close series of snapshots in time, which is always fascinating, often remarkably so, and will stand as a worthy and valuable testament to the airmen themselves. Veterans quoted are from the following groupings: Air Transport Auxiliary, British Army, Civilians, Fleet Air Arm, Italian air force, Luftwaffe, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force and Navy, Soviet air force, US Army, US Army Air Force, US Navy et al.

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Non-Fiction History General & World History Military History Second World War Warfare & Defence War & Defence Operations Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000 Biographies & True Stories Memoirs Air Forces & Warfare

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction & Acknowledgements	p. viii
Enlistment	p. 1
Training Days	p. 22
Defence - the Fighters	p. 58
Offence - Bomber Boys	p. 90
The Lonely Sea	p. 133
The Eastern Front	p. 149
Mediterranean & Far East Theatres	p. 189
Night Fighters!	p. 220
Transports	p. 235
They Also Served	p. 248
D-Day to VJ-Day	p. 268
References	p. 291
Abbreviations	p. 292
Select Bibliography	p. 295
Index	p. 297
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Heroes All

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