Spitfire Singh

A True Life of Relentless Adventure

Mike Edwards (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

434 Seiten

2016
Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt Ltd (Verlag)
978-93-86141-61-3 (ISBN)

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Despite their heroics during World War I, the British officers of the Royal Air Force did not believe that Indians were capable of waging war from the air. They were considered inferior, and the fledgling Indian Air Force (IAF) was equipped with outdated machines and forced to operate in impossible working conditions.

Harjinder Singh, a determined orphan, entered this military world in mid-1930s as a lowly sepoy, and yet thanks to his courage, determination and sheer skill, he enjoyed a meteoric rise over three decades of service, becoming one of the leading figures of the IAF - a thrilling career that spanned World War II, Indian independence and the carnage of Partition.

Using an extensive collection of personal diaries, notes and letters with a thread of humour throughout, Spitfire Singh unleashes this untold story - one of mutual respect forged and strengthened across lines of religion, caste, creed and race.

Mike Edwards joined the RAF in 1986, before working in the former Soviet Union and then flying for British Airways. After discovering a forgotten collection of historic Indian aircraft in 2007, he was appointed Chief Advisor to the IAF Vintage Flight. In 2012 he was awarded an MBE for services to aviation and Anglo-Indian relations. Mike lives 100 paces away from Winston Churchill's grave in Bladon, Oxfordshire, with his wife and two daughters.

Rebellious beginnings
Training to be a Sepoy
Eating off the floor
Death comes to visit. Death comes to stay
The North West Frontier Province
The World is at War
New Aircraft but old prejudices
Into Burma
The fighting retreat
To India: To England: To Jail?
Spreading Wings. Clipping Wings
Independence! But at what cost?
Command!
Kindred spirit or dangerous Liaison?
Reuniting old friends
Epilogue: The Greatest Disgrace?

Erscheinungsdatum	12.10.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 234 mm
Gewicht	533 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
ISBN-10	93-86141-61-2 / 9386141612
ISBN-13	978-93-86141-61-3 / 9789386141613
Zustand	Neuware