First Light

Name: First Light
ISBN: 9780141008141

Geoffrey Wellum

2002·338 pages·Nonfiction

Biography Historical Fiction

memoir

“An extraordinary, deeply moving and astonishingly evocative story. Reading it, you feel you are in the Spitfire with him, at 20,000 feet, chased by a German Heinkel, with your ammunition gone”
— INDEPENDENT

Two months before the outbreak of WWII, seventeen year old Geoffrey Wellum left school to become a fighter pilot with the RAF. He made it through basic training to become the youngest Spitfire pilot in the prestigious 92 Squadron. Thrust into combat almost immediately, Wellum found himselfflying several sorties a day, caught up in terrifying dogfights with German Me 109s. Published more than fifty years afterwards, FIRST LIGHT is Geoffrey Wellum's gripping memoir of his experiences as a fighter pilot during WWII.

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First Light

Geoffrey Wellum

Year

2002

Pages

338

Type

Nonfiction

Biography Historical Fiction History & Politics

Praise

“An extraordinary, deeply moving and astonishingly evocative story. Reading it, you feel you are in the Spitfire with him, at 20,000 feet, chased by a German Heinkel, with your ammunition gone”
— INDEPENDENT