![]() Well I'm grown up now, and interestingly so has this Like most boys my age growing up in the 1970s, I was fascinated by both aeroplanes and war, and thus spent many not-so-profitable hours building and painting Airfix kits, one of which depicted a Hawker Tempest. My father, when he saw the completed kit, steered me to his copy of The Big Show, which I read again and again during my adolescence. This particular kit had decals depicting "Le Grand Charles", the personal plane of Pierre Clostermann. Like most boys my age growing up in the 1970s, I was fascinated by both aeroplanes and war, and thus spent many not-so-profitable hours building and painting Airfix kits, one of which depicted a Hawker Tempest. It really is one of the very best war memoirs ever written: exhilarating, exciting, deeply moving and a book that lingers in the mind long after the last page has been turned.' James Holland 'The relentlessness of the flying is extraordinary and the casual loss of life chilling. ‘Vividly captures the spirit of air combat’ The Times ‘A classic … gripping, ripping, full of action’ Economist ‘A thrilling read … ranks among the finest accounts of war’ Guardian ‘A truly remarkable book … the most gripping descriptions of aerial combat I have ever read’ New York Times THE BIG SHOW, his extraordinary account of the war, has been described as the greatest pilot's memoir of WWII. 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. 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, sh Perhaps the most viscerally exciting book ever written by a fighter pilot.' 'THE BIG SHOW is as close as you'll ever get to fighting for your life from the cockpit of a Spitfire or Typhoon.
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