Robert Gretzyngier, Wojtek Matusiak

Polish Aces of World War 2 (eBook, ePUB)

Illustrator: Gretzyngier, Robert; Grudzien, Robert; Chappell, Mike; Wyllie, Iain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Illustrated throughout, this book describes the action pilots of the Polish Air Force saw from the first day of World War 2 until the final victory in Europe. Flying hopelessly outmoded P.11 fighters in defence of their country in September 1939, a handful of aviators inflicted serious losses on the Luftwaffe before being overwhelmed. The survivors escaped to then neutral Hungary and Romania, before being ordered to France by the new C-in-C of exiled Polish Armed Forces, General Sikorski. As this book describes, with the invasion of Western Europe in May 1940, the surviving pilots were once more thrust into desperate action in newly-formed Polish units

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 100
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472800589
• Artikelnr.: 40469446

Autorenporträt

Robert Gretzyngier is a co-editor of Poland's most pre-eminent monthly aviation journal, Skrzydlata Polska, and has researched the subject of Polish aces more thoroughly than most other aviation historians in Europe. Indeed, his knowledge of non-Polish RAF aces in general rivals that of many British historians.

Inhaltsangabe

The Last and the First
Into Battle
Sikorski's Troops
Battle for Britain
PAF Reborn
Northolt Wing
Shalski's Circus
USAAF Connection
Invasion and On
Whatever Happened to the Heroes
Appendices