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RAF's French Foreign Legion : De Gaulle, the British and the Re-emergence of French Airpower 1940-45.
This book examines and analyses the relationship between the RAF, the Free French Movement and the French fighter pilots in WWII. A highly significant subject, this has been ignored by academics on both sides of the Channel. This ground-breaking study will fill a significant gap in the historiograph...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Continuum International Publishing,
2011.
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| Colección: | Continuum studies in military history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book examines and analyses the relationship between the RAF, the Free French Movement and the French fighter pilots in WWII. A highly significant subject, this has been ignored by academics on both sides of the Channel. This ground-breaking study will fill a significant gap in the historiography of the War. Bennett's painstaking research has unearthed primary source material in both Britain and France including Squadron records, diaries, oral histories and memoirs. In the post-war period the idea of French pilots serving with the RAF seemed anachronistic to both sides. For the French nati. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (284 pages) |
| ISBN: | 1441165355 9781441165350 1441189785 9781441189783 9781441106629 1441106626 |