Arise To Conquer The Real Hurricane Pilot Battle Of Britain Ian Gleed by Ian Gleed 9781406752595, 9781906502935, 1406752592, 1906502935 instant download after payment.

• A fighter pilot’s memoir of the Battle of Britain.

• A neglected classic account of both the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain by a Hurricane fighter pilot who shot down 15 enemy aircraft.

• Includes all the original 1942 edition photographs and illustrations.

‘The Junkers 88 falls away into a gentle dive; I give him another burst in the fuselage. The dive steepens – down, down… Suddenly, but rather slowly and gracefully, his wings come off, just where the engines are; simultaneously three black objects fly out from the top. Bodies. I was close enough to see them somersaulting. No parachutes open. The fuselage with the engines plunges vertically downwards, followed rather more slowly by the bodies, who recede into black dots. The wings flutter beneath me, falling like autumn leaves.’

ARISE TO CONQUER is Ian Gleed’s gripping and detailed memoir of life as a fighter pilot during the Battle of France and the Battle of Britain.

First published in 1942, it is the least known of the personal accounts of the aerial dual between the pilots of RAF’s Fighter Command and Nazi Germany’s Luftwaffe. Mistakenly described by some as a fictionalised account, post-war research has shown that every dogfight, every enemy ‘kill’ (Gleed is credited with shooting down 15 enemy aircraft) did indeed take place and it deserves to rank alongside other classic accounts of 1940.