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In a go back to sweeping social record of wartime, Patrick Bishop - author of best-selling Fighter Children and Bomber Children - explores the lives and wartime encounters of thousands of women and men who served in every units of the air force, to make the centenary of the RAF in 2018. On 1st April 2018, the Royal Air Push will be 100 years old - a brief life by armed forces standards but an extraordinarily important and eventful one. Right away it was special, ranking sometimes awkwardly but always proudly a little apart from the existing services. It was something of the modern get older, whose fortunes depended on ever-more complex machines and the right calibre of men to fly them and keep them airborne. Its successes between 1939 and 1945 - when it was Britain's last type of defence and the spearhead of its counterattack - were central to the entire war effort. During these years one in four of these in consistent wore air force blue, and the ethos of the RAF was indistinguishable from the heart of the nation. Pursuing his best-selling literature Fighter Children and Bomber Children, Airforce Blue explains to personal stories of these who dished up, using the characters, diaries and memoirs of the participants to create a true picture of what it was like to be a pilot, a navigator, a gunner, a fitter or a WAAF ops room clerk. It re-creates the truth of procedures, whether wheeling over Kent in a Spitfire in 1940, rumbling for the Ruhr in a Halifax in 1942 or looking down from the cockpit of any Liberator at the greyish corrugated waters of the North Atlantic in 1943. It will light up the humanity of the participants at every level - their ideals and motivations, their wants and ambitions. Air Push Blue is a considerable work of record, a monument to the wartime RAF all together and a must-buy for the descendants of the million-plus women and men from not simply Britain but Canada, Australia and New Zealand who dished up.
