Warriors of the sky: Springbok air heroes in combat by Bagshawe, Peter
Warriors of the sky: Springbok air heroes in combat by Bagshawe, Peter
South Africans at War Series Nr 2
Hardcover
ISBN 9781874800118 / 1874800111
Publisher: Ashanti Publishing , 1990 Standard First edition.
Condition: Very Good+. This book is in an excellent condition. The DJ has only some very slight signs of wear and the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains perfect. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. The book is protected with a Cellophane cover.
This is a collection of fifty exciting short stories written by pilots of the South African Air Force. The majority concern World War II when, along with other Commonwealth air forces, the SAAF fought alongside the RAF in the war-torn skies over Europe. The book captures the esprit de corps that existed between all the nationalities that fought on the Allied side and creates a splendid record of the many heroic actions in which the Springbok pilots fought. Some of the other stories relate flying in the border wars that South Africa fought in post-war years, often against vastly superior and better equipped communist inspired regimes.
