YANKS OVER EUROPE: AMERICAN FLYERS IN WORLD WAR II. by Klinkowitz, Jerome - 1996

Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1996. 148 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). "At first there were just a few, a scant seven Americans who in 1940 volunteered for the Royal Air Force in time to fly and fight in the Battle of Britain. One of them, a Minnesota farm boy named Art Donahue, lived long enough to write about it, and with his 1941 account ('Tally-Ho! Yankee in a Spitfire') began a series of memoirs that now number in the hundreds. (This book) examines more than one hundred narrative accounts of the air war over Europe written since 1941 by American flyers. The experience of combat inspired these men to combine exquisite descriptions with probing thoughtfulness. But the differences in their roles in the war, whether hotshot fighters or beleaguered bomber crew members, affects how they tell their stories. (The author) weaves these individual accounts into a tightly drawn, highly readable book while letting the flyers speak in their own words." Tiny stain at bottom of both front endpapers, minor edge wear, book slightly cocked.. Hard Cover. Very Good+/Near Fine.