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Billy Bishop - Top Canadian Flying Ace (Paperback)
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Billy Bishop - Top Canadian Flying Ace (Paperback)
Series: Amazing Stories
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List price R306
Loot Price R240
Discovery Miles 2 400
You Save R66 (22%)
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Billy Bishop was the top Canadian flying ace in the first World
War, credited officially with a record breaking 75 victories. A
highly skilled pilot and an accurate shot, he was fiercely
ambitious, driven by an undisguised hatred of his enemies. He
played hard and fought even harder. A highly skilled pilot and a
crack shot, "top gun" of the Allied air forces, by 1918 Bishop was
the most highly decorated war hero in Canadian history. He also
remains the most controversial. Some of Bishop's fellow pilots were
repelled by his grandstanding and suspected he was deliberately
inflating his number of"kills." Since then, the claim has been
repeated by many others. Bishop went from being the most decorated
war hero in Canadian history to a crusader for peace, writing the
book Winged Peace, which supported international control of global
air power. While some historians feel that authorities upgraded
Bishop's claims to improve morale, author Dan McCaffery presents
the true life and accomplishments of Bishop through information he
gathered from interviews and archival sources. About the Author Dan
McCaffery is one of Canada's most successful military aviation
history writers. He is the author of Hell Island: Canadian Pilots
and the 1942 Air Battle for Malta, Air Aces, and Battlefields in
the Air, amongst others.
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