The RAF's French Foreign Legion: de Gaulle, the British and the Re-Emergence of French Airpower 1940-45

by G.H. Bennett

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441165355
• ISBN13: 9781441165350
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"