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'An extraordinary, deeply moving and astonishingly evocative story. Reading it, you feel you are in the Spitfire with him, at 20,000 feet, chased by a German Heinkel, with your ammunition gone' - "Independent". Two months before the outbreak of WWII, seventeen year old Geoffrey Wellum left... read more

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First Sentence

"There are some days in the early spring when the weather is such that, no matter where you are, either in town or countryside, England is at her best and it's good to be alive."

Authors & Contributors

  1. Geoffrey Wellum (Author)

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  1. england
  2. fighter pilot
  3. history
  4. memoir
  5. military
  6. nonfiction
  7. ww2
  8. wwii 
 

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