Billy Bishop by Dan Mccaffery

Billy Bishop by Dan Mccaffery

Billy Bishop was the top Canadian flying ace in the first World War, credited officially with a record breaking 75 victories. A highly skilled pilot and an accurate shot, he was fiercely ambitious, driven by an undisguised hatred of his enemies. He played hard and fought even harder.

A very good, inexpensive record of the most controversial allied pilot of WW1A good read… * www.scaleplasticandrail.com *

Dan McCaffery is one of Canada's most successful military aviation history writers. He was born in Sarnia, Ontario, where he graduated from the the Journalism Program at Lambton College of Applied Arts and Technology. He worked for the Sarnia Gazette, a weekly newspaper, from 1974 to 1989 as a reporter and later as editor. Since 1989 he has worked at the daily newspaper the Sarnia Observer where he is currently the assignment editor. He has won three Canadian News Awards, two Ontario News Awards and a Western Ontario News Award. He is the author of Hell Island: Canadian Pilots and the 1942 Air Battle for Malta, Billy Bishop: Canadian Hero, Air Aces, Battlefields in the Air, Canadian Warplanes and Bush Planes and Bush Pilots. McCaffery and his wife Val have been married for 28 years.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781552774137
ISBN 10	1552774139
Title	Billy Bishop
Author	Dan Mccaffery
Series	Amazing Stories Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Lorimer (James) & Co Ltd ,Canada
Year published	2011-02-20
Number of pages	128
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.