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Автор: Patrick Bishop
Издательство: HarperCollins
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isbn: 9780007433162
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       Copyright

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2017

      Copyright © Patrick Bishop 2017

      Cover image: RAF bomber pilots return home from a successful mission (Photo © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

      Maps by John Gilkes

      Patrick Bishop asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780007433155

      Ebook Edition © September 2017 ISBN: 9780007433162

      Version: 2018-05-29

       Dedication

      TO HEN

      ANGEL GIRL IN CHIEF

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Dedication

       Maps

       Prologue: Firstway

       1 The Big One

       2 A Cottage or a Castle?

       6 ‘Tragic, Criminally Tragic’

       7 The Battle

       8 Fighting the Night

       9 Ten Million Miles of Sea

       10 The Blue

       11 ‘Eat, Drink and Be Merry …’

       12 ‘Britain’s Best Advertisement’

       13 Out of Sight

       14 Black and White

       15 The Hyacinths of Spring

       Epilogue: Brothers and Sisters

       Acknowledgements

       Notes

       Picture Section

       Index

       Also by Patrick Bishop

       About the Author

       About the Publisher

       Maps

       Fighter Command’s area of operations 1940

       Main Bomber Command stations in the UK

       Main targets in Europe

       The Mediterranean, Levant and Southern Europe, showing the Takoradi Route

       North-East India and Burma

       Normandy and North-West Europe

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