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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Small message in front. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> By the time I and my friends arrived in Britain in 1940 we had travelled around the whole of Europe spurred by the will to fight for our oppressed homeland. My desire to fight was finally fulfilled when I was posted to a fighter squadron of the RAF Far from officialdom among my British colleagues I felt really happy. Luck was with me during those months – it was with me when I shot down an enemy plane and it did not abandon me when I was badly hit myself. The latter fact is more and more often brought to my attention both by my old bones and by people who have researched the Battle of Britain. For some time now they have not only been British historians but also young men from Poland who persistently bother me and my aged friends with detailed questions about what happened sixty years ago. Unfortunately they are not always satisfied with my answers while my memory does not serve me as it used to.. Attending Battle of Britain meetings every year I notice fewer and fewer of the familiar faces and the number of surviving Polish participants of that great air battle has long since become a single-digit one. More and more often we mourn yet another Polish pilot who at one time flew in defence of Britain. If not for the commemorative plaques monuments and memorials erected by the Polish Air Force Association as well as by our British friends any trace of the Polish Air Force on British soil would soon be gone. (SP)