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First Light-Geoffrey Wellum-Paperba
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- ISBN
- 0141008148
- Book Title
- First Light
- Publisher
- Penguin Books LTD
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 199mm
- Genre
- Biographies & True Stories
- Topic
- Memorials, Government, History
- Item Width
- 129mm
- Item Weight
- 284g
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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This is the memoir of a young man (17 years old when the story begins) who enlisted into the RAF weeks before the outbreak of World War II. We follow Geoffrey's progress through the demanding early stages of his training: he was distinctly below average and was reminded of this continually. He was obviously a sensitive young man and pressure on him tells. As the war raged in the air over the channel, Geoffrey, by then an 18-year-old spitfire fighter pilot with minimal experience, was posted to a squadron based on the south coast. He remained here for two years and despite the appalling casualty rate - friends disappearing almost after every sortie - he became a brave, decorated fighter pilot. Running through the book are his inner feelings - angst, bravado, comradeship - and it is this powerfully evoked sense of self that is one of the most moving aspects of the book. Geoffrey describes his first flights in a spitfire, as well as his first experience of aerial battle and one dreadful sortie over the English Channel where his radio broke and he was coping with thunderstorm, cloud and German planes. Finally in the writing one begins to see, through small references at first, the effect on Geoffrey of this endless stress and tiredness. He began to doubt himself, things went wrong and finally he snapped.
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Penguin Books LTD
ISBN-13
9780141008141
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Product Key Features
Book Title
First Light
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Memorials, Government, History
Publication Year
2003
Type
Textbook
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
199mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
284g
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United Kingdom
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Goldstone Books Ltd
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