An alien sky : the story of one man's remarkable adventure in Bomber Command during the Second World War
Wiseman, Andrew2015
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By any measure, Andrew Wiseman (born Weizman) is a lucky man. The only son of a Polish father and an American mother, Andrew was born and grew up in Berlin, just as Adolf Hitler was coming to power. As a Jew educated at the famous Werner Siemans Real Gymnasium in Schoneberg, he left only months before his school was closed down and fled with his family to Poland, one step ahead of the Nazi persecution that was to follow and later take the life of his father. From Poland he again fled to England, this time without his parents, arriving as a 16-year-old with little or no grasp of English. After a crash course in the language, he avoided being called up into the Polish army in exile thanks to the timely intervention of no less a man than General Sikorski himself, to enlist in the RAF to train initially as a pilot and then as an air bomber in South Africa. This is his story.
Main title:
An alien sky : the story of one man's remarkable adventure in Bomber Command during the Second World War / Andrew Wiseman with Sean Feast.
Author:
Wiseman, Andrew, authorFeast, Sean, author
Imprint:
London : Grub Street, [2015]London : Grub Street, [2015]©2015
Collation:
176 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781909808256 (hbk)
Dewey class:
940.544941092940.544941940.544941WIS940.544
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1740885