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The Last Enemy (Hardcover, Commemorative Ed)
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The Last Enemy (Hardcover, Commemorative Ed)
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* The moving story of a WWII fighter-pilot's epic recovery after
being shot down *A harrowing reflection on the ordeals of combat
*Commemorative edition of a recognised classic Described by critics
as 'not a book written by a pilot about the war, but a book written
by a writer about a pilot', The Last Enemy tells the story of a
young writer's experiences as a Spitfire pilot in training and
during the Battle of Britain, and of the life he led after being
shot down. From his carefree days at Trinity College, Oxford,
through the youthful excitement of his training, to the horror of
being shot down and his slow and painful recovery, Richard Hillary
has created a masterpiece of reflection and a testament to youth
cruelly forsaken. Hillary's ordeal left him temporarily blinded,
his face and hands savagely burned and terribly disfigured, and he
endured repeated operations and skin grafts. While undergoing this
harrowing experience he questioned whether he might fly again, and
if not what he could do to honour those that had died. His
conclusion was to write, and this remarkable book is the fruits of
his resolution. This commemorative edition of The Last Enemy,
originally published in 2003 sixty years after his death, contains
a Foreword by 'D.M.W.', to whom the book was originally dedicated.
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