The big show
Clostermann, Pierre, 1921-20062006
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Pierre Closterman was a Free French fighter ace in World War II during which he engaged in hundreds of dog fights, shooting down scores of Luftwaffe planes. His memoir captures all the drama and bravery of a man fighting a desperate war thousands of feet above the ground.When The Big Show was first published, paper rationing meant that the text had to be heavily cut. Now, for the first time, this international bestseller has been returned to its complete, and breathtaking, original state. Pierre Clostermann was a Free French fighter ace who flew with the RAF during the Second World War. Over the course of five years he engaged in hundreds of dog-fights, shot down scores of Luftwaffe planes, escorted American bombers on some of the most dangerous raids of the war, and watched many of his friends falling to their deaths in the skies over the Channel. The Big Show, his incredible account of the air war over Britain and France, has become one of the most famous memoirs of the Second World War. Now in its original state, it contains everything one could wish for in a war memoir: wonderfully observed descriptions of wartime Britain, frighteningly evocative stories of in-the-cockpit action, an amazing cast of characters, and all the drama and bravery of a man fighting a desperate war thousands of feet above the ground. An undeniable classic.
Main title:
The big show / Pierre Clostermann.
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Edition:
[New ed.].
Imprint:
London : Cassell, 2005.
Collation:
xvi, 345 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
Notes:
This ed. of this translation originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780304366242 (pbk)
Dewey class:
940.544
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
3843730
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