The Big Show
The Classic Account of WWII Aerial Combat

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

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

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

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

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