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First Light

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First Light

Von: Geoffrey Wellum
Gesprochen von: Andrew Brooke
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of First Light by Geoffrey Wellum, read by Andrew Brooke.

Two months before the outbreak of the Second World War, eighteen-year-old Geoffrey Wellum becomes a fighter pilot with the RAF...

Desperate to get in the air, he makes it through basic training to become the youngest Spitfire pilot in the prestigious 92 Squadron. Thrust into combat almost immediately, Wellum finds himself flying several sorties a day, caught up in terrifying dogfights with German Me 109s.

Over the coming months he and his fellow pilots play a crucial role in the Battle of Britain. But of the friends that take to the air alongside Wellum many never return.

©2018 Geoffrey Wellum (P)2018 Penguin Audio Militär

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Vivid, wholly convincing, compelling. One of the best memoirs for years about the experience of flying in war (Max Hastings)
It took him 35 years to turn his notebooks into a narrative, and the result is a highly personal account of what it is like to face mortal combat, day and night, and what it does to a man who is barely more than a boy (Ben Macintyre)
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It pulls you right in!
Full of British humour and manners, read and intoned exquisitely, one feels close to the author and the action.
The apprehensions and joys of Geoffrey Wellum, the perks of flying and the twists and turns of the war form a story that every aviation enthusiast should listen to!

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