THE LAST TORPEDO FLYERS : The True Story of Arthur Aldridge, Hero of the Skies

Aldridge, Arthur

ISBN 10: 1471102750 / ISBN 13: 9781471102752

Published by Simon & Schuster Ltd, London, 2013

About this Item

This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in black cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The price clipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Flying torpedo-bombing missions was an especially perilous business during the Second World War, requiring a smooth, steady approach to the target ship in the teeth of enemy fire. This book tells the story of Arthur Aldridge who joined the RAF at the age of 19 in 1940 to fly Bristol Beauforts and survived to the end of the war, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross and bar in the process for repeated bravery in action. Ref GGG 6.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE LAST TORPEDO FLYERS : The True Story of Arthur Aldridge, Hero of the Skies
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1471102750
• ISBN 13: 9781471102752
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New

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Synopsis

Flying torpedo-bombing missions was an especially perilous business during the Second World War, requiring a smooth, steady approach to the target ship in the teeth of enemy fire. This book tells the story of Arthur Aldridge who joined the RAF at the age of 19 in 1940 to fly Bristol Beauforts and survived to the end of the war, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross and bar in the process for repeated bravery in action.

About the Author

Arthur Aldridge was born in August 1920 and went up to Oxford in 1940 to study modern languages. He postponed his studies to help defeat the Axis maritime fleet, earning a DFC for his bravery in 1941, before resuming full-time education to graduate with flying colours after the war. He married and settled down as a teacher at a boys' school in Worcester for many happy years. He lived in the Malverns until his death in December 2015. Mark Ryan is author of the The Hornet's Sting (Little Brown, 2009)) and of Chariots of Fire sprinter Harold Abrahams in Running with Fire (The Robson Press 2011), described by Athletics Weekly as: 'The best athletics biography I've ever read, in sixty years in the sport'. He is also a freelance journalist for the Mail on Sunday.