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Geoffrey Wellum joined the Royal Air Force in 1939, at age seventeen. After piloting Spitfires during the Battle of Britain and flying nearly 100 missions over occupied France, he was mentally and physically exhausted--an old man at age twenty-two. Now, drawing on notes he wrote at the time, Wellum re-creates his wartime experiences. The book vividly evokes the realities of wartime flying--the camaraderie, the scrambles, the dogfights, the night flights, the foul weather. But it also gives us a moving portrait of a boy who anguishes over the loss of friends during training, broods over fears of failure--and survives to become a battle-hardened ace, inured to death but never unaffected by it. Richly detailed, engagingly written, and emotionally resonant, First Light is a treat for military history buffs and anyone drawn to dramatic coming-of-age stories.

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