ONWARD TO MALTA

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A young fighter pilot's account of his experiences with 249 Squadron during WWII, from the Battle of Britain to Malta, offering a light-hearted yet authentic perspective on wartime life and aerial combat. Characteristics ISBN-13 978-1853102097 ISBN-10 0552141429 Book cover finish(es) Perfect Paperback Condition Like NEW Author(s) T. F. Neil Publisher Corgi Books Number of pages 256 Published date Originally published in fireat Britain in in by Airlife Publishing Lid PRINTING HISTORY Corgi edition published 1994 Corgi edition reprinted 1998 Copyright O T. F. Neil, 1992 Language(s) English Size 10.6 x 17.8 x 1.8 cm Categorie(s) • AVIATION MILITAIRE• SECONDE GUERRE MONDIALE Description In Onward to Malta Tom Neil describes his time as a fighter pilot with 249 Squadron after the Battle of Britain.Having acquitted themselves splendidly during the Battle of Britain and afterwards, the Squadron, stationed at RAF North Weald in Essex, was ordered to Malta to reinforce the Middle East in April 1941.The book deals with 249's activities at North Weald and their trip to Malta on the aircraft carriers Furious and Ark Royal. Tom Neil describes the life of a young fighter pilot, what he did from day to day, how he saw the war and what he thought of his colleagues and some of his seniors.There are first hand descriptions, not only of the incidents that occurred both at North Weald and in Malta during 1941, but also of a major torpedo attack on the convoy on which the author was travelling to Egypt.On the whole Onward to Malta is a light-hearted account of what happened because, as the author says 'in war there is much that is ridiculous and amusing and at twenty years of age no one is very serious or high-minded - or if he is, he shouldn't be'. This in short is life as it was, not as the dry-as-dust historians would have us believe. Cover painting by Michael Turner Show more