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The summer of 1940 and the Battle of Britain—the darkest days of World War II. France, Poland, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Norway had all been crushed by the powerful Nazi German war machine. Great Britain stood alone, fighting for its life.
303 Squadron is the thrilling story of the celebrated squadron of Polish fighter pilots whose superb skill in the air helped save England during its most desperate hours. They were the highest-scoring Allied fighter squadron in the Battle of Britain, downing three times the average RAF score while incurring only one-third the average casualties. Dashing and gallant 303 Squadron was lionized by the British press, congratulated by the King, and adored by the British public.
With an immediacy that vividly brings to life those harrowing days, Fiedler paints the bravery, the poignancy, the breathtaking gambles with death risked daily by this exceptional group of young men far from home, who fought to preserve freedom for all.
“Had it not been for the magnificent material contributed by the Polish squadrons and their unsurpassed gallantry, I hesitate to say that the outcome of the battle would have been the same.”
— British Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
Translated from the Polish; identifies the pilots by their real names for the first time in English. Nearly 200 black & white photos, maps and illustrations; contextualizing historical material; nine appendices.
Selection of the History Book Club and the Military Book Club.
Winner:
GOLD Award for History, 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards
SILVER Award for Interior Design, 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards
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303 Squadron is the thrilling story of the celebrated squadron of Polish fighter pilots whose superb skill in the air helped save England during its most desperate hours. They were the highest-scoring Allied fighter squadron in the Battle of Britain, downing three times the average RAF score while incurring only one-third the average casualties. Dashing and gallant 303 Squadron was lionized by the British press, congratulated by the King, and adored by the British public.
With an immediacy that vividly brings to life those harrowing days, Fiedler paints the bravery, the poignancy, the breathtaking gambles with death risked daily by this exceptional group of young men far from home, who fought to preserve freedom for all.
“Had it not been for the magnificent material contributed by the Polish squadrons and their unsurpassed gallantry, I hesitate to say that the outcome of the battle would have been the same.”
— British Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
Translated from the Polish; identifies the pilots by their real names for the first time in English. Nearly 200 black & white photos, maps and illustrations; contextualizing historical material; nine appendices.
Selection of the History Book Club and the Military Book Club.
Winner:
GOLD Award for History, 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards
SILVER Award for Interior Design, 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards
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The summer of 1940 and the Battle of Britain—the darkest days of World War II. France, Poland, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and Norway had all been crushed by the powerful Nazi German war machine. Great Britain stood alone, fighting for its life.
303 Squadron is the thrilling story of the celebrated squadron of Polish fighter pilots whose superb skill in the air helped save England during its most desperate hours. They were the highest-scoring Allied fighter squadron in the Battle of Britain, downing three times the average RAF score while incurring only one-third the average casualties. Dashing and gallant 303 Squadron was lionized by the British press, congratulated by the King, and adored by the British public.
With an immediacy that vividly brings to life those harrowing days, Fiedler paints the bravery, the poignancy, the breathtaking gambles with death risked daily by this exceptional group of young men far from home, who fought to preserve freedom for all.
“Had it not been for the magnificent material contributed by the Polish squadrons and their unsurpassed gallantry, I hesitate to say that the outcome of the battle would have been the same.”
— British Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
Translated from the Polish; identifies the pilots by their real names for the first time in English. Nearly 200 black & white photos, maps and illustrations; contextualizing historical material; nine appendices.
Selection of the History Book Club and the Military Book Club.
Winner:
GOLD Award for History, 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards
SILVER Award for Interior Design, 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards
Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE
303 Squadron is the thrilling story of the celebrated squadron of Polish fighter pilots whose superb skill in the air helped save England during its most desperate hours. They were the highest-scoring Allied fighter squadron in the Battle of Britain, downing three times the average RAF score while incurring only one-third the average casualties. Dashing and gallant 303 Squadron was lionized by the British press, congratulated by the King, and adored by the British public.
With an immediacy that vividly brings to life those harrowing days, Fiedler paints the bravery, the poignancy, the breathtaking gambles with death risked daily by this exceptional group of young men far from home, who fought to preserve freedom for all.
“Had it not been for the magnificent material contributed by the Polish squadrons and their unsurpassed gallantry, I hesitate to say that the outcome of the battle would have been the same.”
— British Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding
Translated from the Polish; identifies the pilots by their real names for the first time in English. Nearly 200 black & white photos, maps and illustrations; contextualizing historical material; nine appendices.
Selection of the History Book Club and the Military Book Club.
Winner:
GOLD Award for History, 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards
SILVER Award for Interior Design, 2011 Benjamin Franklin Awards
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Über den Autor
Author ARKADY FIEDLER (1894-1985), was born in Poznan, Poland, educated at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, in Poznan and at the University of Leipzig.
A best-selling travel writer researching in Tahiti when WWII began, Fiedler made his way back to Europe and joined the Polish Army in France after Poland had fallen to the Germans.
His 32 books have been translated into 23 languages selling over 10 million copies. 303 Squadron is his most famous and popular book.
Translator JAREK GARLINSKI, born in London, England, grew up bilingual in English and Polish. His father, noted historian and author Jozef Garlinski, and his mother Eileen Short-Garlinska, one of only a few Britons who spent WWII in Warsaw, both served in the Polish Underground Army during the war.
Educated at the University of Nottingham, the University of Grenoble, and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London, Garlinski is fluent in French, Russian, English and Polish, with a distinguished career in education. He has translated numerous books of Polish literature and history, specializing in the WWII era.
A best-selling travel writer researching in Tahiti when WWII began, Fiedler made his way back to Europe and joined the Polish Army in France after Poland had fallen to the Germans.
His 32 books have been translated into 23 languages selling over 10 million copies. 303 Squadron is his most famous and popular book.
Translator JAREK GARLINSKI, born in London, England, grew up bilingual in English and Polish. His father, noted historian and author Jozef Garlinski, and his mother Eileen Short-Garlinska, one of only a few Britons who spent WWII in Warsaw, both served in the Polish Underground Army during the war.
Educated at the University of Nottingham, the University of Grenoble, and the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London, Garlinski is fluent in French, Russian, English and Polish, with a distinguished career in education. He has translated numerous books of Polish literature and history, specializing in the WWII era.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
A Note About... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Translator’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
Author’s Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiii
Chapter 1 - The Battle of Britain 1940 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2 - The Fighter Pilot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 3 - 31st August: The First Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 4 - 2nd September: Comradeship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 5 - When the Ammunition Ran Out... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 6 - 5th–6th September: You Win Some, You Lose Some . . 49
Chapter 7 - 7th September: A Tasty Morsel—Dorniers . . . . . . . . . 64
Chapter 8 - Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chapter 9 - A Smile Through the Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Chapter 10 - The Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Chapter 11 - 11th September: The Greatest Victory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Chapter 12 - The Enemy’s Dance of Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Chapter 13 - A Brave Czech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Chapter 14 - The Colourless Roots of Brilliant Flowers . . . . . . . . . 128
Chapter 15 - A Fearless, Flawless Airman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Chapter 16 - The Myth of the Messerschmitt 110 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Chapter 17 - Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Chapter 18 - 15th September: Fate in the Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Chapter 19 - 15th September: Fate Decided . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Chapter 20 - ‘We Are Beginning to Understand the Poles’ . . . . . . . 191
HISTORICAL HORIZON
The Road to Britain for the Polish Air Force:
A Brief Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
APPENDICES
Appendix 1 - Glossary of English, Polish, German and French
Terms and Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Appendix 2 - Polish Air Force Ranks and their Royal Air Force
Equivalents During World War II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Appendix 3 - 303 Squadron Personnel in the Battle of Britain . . . . 231
Appendix 4 - Pilot Biographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Tadeusz Andruszków . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Michał Brzezowski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Arsen Cebrzyński . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Jan Daszewski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Mirosław Ferić . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Athol Forbes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Josef František . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Zdzisław Henneberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Stanisław Karubin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Ronald Kellett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
John Kent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Zdzisław Krasnodębski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Witold Łokuciewski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Ludwik Paszkiewicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Marian Pisarek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Eugeniusz Szaposznikow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Witold Urbanowicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Stefan Wójtowicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Kazimierz Wünsche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Jan Zumbach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Appendix 5 - 303 Squadron Claimed Victories During the
Battle of Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Appendix 6 - Brothers In Arms: The 303 Squadron Badge
and the Original Kościuszko Squadron . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Appendix 7 - The Song of 303 Squadron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Appendix 8 - Against All Odds: The Creation of the Polish
Air Force Colour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Appendix 9 - Operational Units of the Polish Air Force
in Great Britain during World War II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
A Note About... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxv
Translator’s Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxix
Author’s Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxxiii
Chapter 1 - The Battle of Britain 1940 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Chapter 2 - The Fighter Pilot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Chapter 3 - 31st August: The First Battle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Chapter 4 - 2nd September: Comradeship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Chapter 5 - When the Ammunition Ran Out... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Chapter 6 - 5th–6th September: You Win Some, You Lose Some . . 49
Chapter 7 - 7th September: A Tasty Morsel—Dorniers . . . . . . . . . 64
Chapter 8 - Pain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Chapter 9 - A Smile Through the Blood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Chapter 10 - The Cloud . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Chapter 11 - 11th September: The Greatest Victory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Chapter 12 - The Enemy’s Dance of Death . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Chapter 13 - A Brave Czech . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Chapter 14 - The Colourless Roots of Brilliant Flowers . . . . . . . . . 128
Chapter 15 - A Fearless, Flawless Airman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Chapter 16 - The Myth of the Messerschmitt 110 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Chapter 17 - Tricks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
Chapter 18 - 15th September: Fate in the Balance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Chapter 19 - 15th September: Fate Decided . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Chapter 20 - ‘We Are Beginning to Understand the Poles’ . . . . . . . 191
HISTORICAL HORIZON
The Road to Britain for the Polish Air Force:
A Brief Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
APPENDICES
Appendix 1 - Glossary of English, Polish, German and French
Terms and Acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Appendix 2 - Polish Air Force Ranks and their Royal Air Force
Equivalents During World War II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Appendix 3 - 303 Squadron Personnel in the Battle of Britain . . . . 231
Appendix 4 - Pilot Biographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Tadeusz Andruszków . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
Michał Brzezowski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Arsen Cebrzyński . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Jan Daszewski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Mirosław Ferić . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Athol Forbes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Josef František . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Zdzisław Henneberg . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Stanisław Karubin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
Ronald Kellett . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
John Kent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Zdzisław Krasnodębski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Witold Łokuciewski . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Ludwik Paszkiewicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Marian Pisarek . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Eugeniusz Szaposznikow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Witold Urbanowicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Stefan Wójtowicz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Kazimierz Wünsche . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Jan Zumbach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Appendix 5 - 303 Squadron Claimed Victories During the
Battle of Britain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Appendix 6 - Brothers In Arms: The 303 Squadron Badge
and the Original Kościuszko Squadron . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Appendix 7 - The Song of 303 Squadron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
Appendix 8 - Against All Odds: The Creation of the Polish
Air Force Colour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Appendix 9 - Operational Units of the Polish Air Force
in Great Britain during World War II . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
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Details
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Geschichte, Importe |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9781607720058 |
| ISBN-10: | 1607720051 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Fiedler, Arkady |
| Übersetzung: | Garlinski, Jarek |
| Hersteller: | Aquila Polonica Publishing |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 229 x 154 x 30 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Arkady Fiedler |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 16.11.2010 |
| Gewicht: | 0,681 kg |
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