The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force, 1939-1945

by Martin Francis (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $112.24

  The first scholarly study of the men of the RAF and British culture during the war, The Flyer examines the lives of these men and their popular representation in literary and cinematic texts. It illuminates broader issues of gender, class, race, emotional life, and the creation of a national myth in modern Britain.