First light
the true story of the boy who became a man in the war-torn skies above Britain
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Author
Publication
2002 - J. Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, N.J, New Jersey
Language
English
Word Count
84,500 words, Guess
Page Count
338 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26415144M
- ISBN-139780471426271
- ISBN-10047142627X
- OCLC Control Number51251808
- OCLC Control Numberfirstlighttruest00geof
and 1 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2002044605
Classifications
- DDC940.54/4941/092
- LCCD786 .W45 2002
Description
"Geoffry Wellum tells the ... true story of his coming of age amid the roaring, tumbling dogfights of the fiercest air war the world has ever seen. It is the story of an idealistic schoolboy who couldn't believe his luck when the RAF agreed to take him on as a 'pupil pilot' at the minimum age of seventeen and a half in 1939. In his fervor to fly, he gave little thought to the coming war"--Jacket.
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