The Flyer : British culture and the Royal Air Force, 1939-1945 / Martin Francis
- Bib ID:
- 4560132
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Francis, Martin, 1964-
- Description:
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
- vii, 266 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780199277483
- Summary:
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"Despite his star appeal, cultural representations of the flyer encompassed both the gentle, chivalrous warrior and the uncompromising agent of destruction. Paying particular attention to the romantic universe of wartime aircrew, Francis reveals the extraordinary contrasts of their daily lives: dicing with death in the sky one moment, before sitting down to lunch with wives and children in the next. Male and female experiences during the war were not polarized and antithetical, but were complementary and interrelated, a conclusion which has implications for the history of gender in modern Britain that reach well beyond either the specialized military culture of the wartime RAF or the chronological parameters of the Second World War."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. The allure of the flyer
- 2. A man's world
- 3. The flyer in love
- 4. Husbands and fathers
- 5. The flyer and fear
- 6. A darker blue
- 7. The new Achilles? literature, technology and violence
- 8. Coming home.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-258) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2008
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