The Daily Telegraph
Airmen's Obituaries Book Two
Edited by Jay Iliff with a foreword by Graham Pitchfork
Publication: September 2007
Price: £18.00 hardback
Size: 210 x 138mm
Pages: 416
ISBN-13 978 1904943 839
Consolidating the success of the first volume, the paperback of which is still in print Daily Telegraph obituary writer Jay Iliffe has compiled and edited one hundred additional mini-biographies of outstanding aviators of the last century.
Numerous fascinating characters abound, men like John “Cat’s Eyes” Cunningham, night fighter ace and test pilot; Ian Harvey, the BEA pilot who safely landed his airliner after a bomb had exploded onboard; Stanislaw Skalski, Polish Battle of Britain ace; Pierre Clostermann, French fighter ace; the marvellous “Bunny” Currant; Ray Hanna, leader of the Red Arrows hired by Steven Spielberg to fly in Saving Private Ryan; and Bob Morgan, the American pilot of the Memphis Belle. And steadfast women like Iris “Fluff” Bower, an RAF nurse who tended wounded soldiers on Normandy beaches; and Felicity Peake, appointed director of the WAAF in 1946 aged just 32.
As Philip Ziegler wrote of the first collection:
‘Written with wit, insight, compassion and humour, this is a richly unpredictable medley of colourful personalities.’