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The Flyer - British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939-1945 (Paperback)
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The Flyer - British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939-1945 (Paperback)
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Between 1939 and 1945, the British public was spellbound by the
martial endeavours and dashing style of the young men of the RAF,
especially those with silvery fabric wings sewn above the breast
pocket of their glamorous slate-blue uniform. Martin Francis
provides the first scholarly study of the place of 'the flyer' in
British culture during the Second World War. Examining the lives of
RAF personnel, and their popular representation in literary and
cinematic texts, he illuminates broader issues of gender, social
class, national and racial identities, emotional life, and the
creation of a national myth in twentieth-century Britain. In
particular, Francis argues that the flyer's relationship to fear,
aggression, loss of his comrades, bodily dismemberment, and
psychological breakdown reveals broader ambiguities surrounding the
dominant understandings of masculinity in the middle decades of the
century.
Despite his star appeal, cultural representations of the flyer
encompassed both the gentle, chivalrous warrior and the
uncompromising agent of destruction. Paying particular attention to
the romantic universe of wartime aircrew, Francis reveals the
extraordinary contrasts of their daily lives: dicing with death in
the sky one moment, before sitting down to lunch with wives and
children in the next. Male and female experiences during the war
were not polarized and antithetical, but were complementary and
interrelated, a conclusion which has implications for the history
of gender in modern Britain that reach well beyond either the
specialized military culture of the wartime RAF or the
chronological parameters of the Second World War.
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