The Big Show, Pierre Clostermann
The Big Show, Pierre Clostermann
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The Big Show
The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat

Author: Pierre Clostermann

Narrator: Julian Elfer

Unabridged: 8 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/08/2020


Synopsis

Pierre Clostermann DFC was one of the oustanding Allied aces of the Second World War. A Frenchman who flew with the RAF, he survived over 420 operational sorties, shooting down scores of enemy aircraft while friends and comrades lost their lives in the deadly skies above Europe.

The Big Show, his extraordinary account of the war, has been described as the greatest pilot's memoir of WWII.

About Pierre Clostermann

Pierre Clostermann is the author of The Big Show and Flames in the Sky.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Curtiss on August 08, 2014

Pierre Clostermann's story of flying over 300 combat missions while serving as a Free French Sergeant-Pilot with the RAF. The episode when Clostermann helped remove a fellow pilot from the cockpit of a Hawker Tempest fighter that had crashed and cartwheeled in a flaming wreck while attempting a "whe......more

Goodreads review by KOMET on August 31, 2022

Here is a combat memoir that rings with the thrills and perils of "grappling in the central blue", to quote Tennyson. Clostermann, a Frenchman of Brazilian birth, made his way to Britain where he joined the Royal Air Force (RAF). He was trained as a fighter pilot and assigned to one of the Free Fren......more

Goodreads review by Kristian on November 03, 2012

Possibly the best book I've read about the air war in WW2, up there with the best like "First Light"......more

Goodreads review by Simon on November 07, 2019

One of the best of the accounts I've read of WW2 in the air written by a pilot. This ranks alongside Wellum's First Light in my opinion. Don't be put off by the fact that the writer is French or that his story begins well after the Battle of Britain.......more

Goodreads review by Jean-Vincent on May 28, 2010

LE livre qui a lancé mon intérêt pour la Seconde Guerre mondiale, certainement parmi mon top cinq des meilleurs livres. Mon exemplaire, en édition originale 1948, relu plusieurs fois, tombe malheureusement en lambeaux tellement je l'ai lu et relu, au point que l'objet fait maintenant figure de reliq......more