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'I Wish I Had Your Wings'
- A Spitfire Pilot and Operation Pedestal, Malta 1942
Engelsk
Bogcover for 'I Wish I Had Your Wings' af Angus Mansfield, 9781803999531
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Sprog:
Engelsk
ISBN-13:
9781803999531
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1803999535
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Udg. Dato:
26 jun 2025
Størrelse i cm:
12,9 x 19,8 x 1,6
Oplagsdato:
26 jun 2025
Forfatter(e):
Paperback 2025
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August 1942, British forces launched Operation Pedestal in an attempt to deliver supplies to the stricken island of Malta, an Allied base that had been under Axis blockade for months. From 9 to 15 August, a convoy of some fifty ships ran the gauntlet of Axis bombers, submarines, E-boats and minefields. Of the original fourteen merchant vessels, only five reached Malta Grand Harbour.

In ‘I Wish I Had Your Wings’, Angus Mansfield relates the experiences of two men involved in Pedestal, Captain David Macfarlane of MV Melbourne Star and his nephew John Mejor, one of the Spitfire pilots who fought to protect the convoy. Told using their log books, letters and papers, and illustrated with images from the family archive, this is the story of one family’s contribution to a relief operation that cost over 400 Allied lives, but has gone down in history as one of the most important British strategic victories of the Second World War.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
ISBN-13:
9781803999531
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1803999535
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
26 jun 2025
Størrelse i cm:
12,9 x 19,8 x 1,6
Oplagsdato:
26 jun 2025
Forfatter(e):
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