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Beaufighter at War

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Author(s)	Chaz Bowyer
Editor	Ian Allan Publishing	Place	London
Year	1976	Pages	160
Measure	23x30 (cm)	Illustration	ill. b/n n.t. - b/w ills.
Binding	cart. edit. con sovracc. ill. colori - Hardcover with dustjacket	Conservazione	Usato ottime condizioni - used very good
Language	Inglese - English text	Weight	1500 (gr)
ISBN	0711007047	EAN-13	9780711007048

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The Beaufighter, despite the French connotation of its name, was strictly a brutish functional air weapon and looked every inch of it. Yet in its ugliness there was an air of pugnacity which emanated an aura of sheer rugged handsomeness; the same charisma which inexplicably attracts a beautiful woman to a boxer's battered features gave Beau crews an affinity with their steed. The pug-nosed, hunched -shoulders appearance of a Beau proclaimed accurately its deadly fighting abili-ty, a destroyer which packed the most lethal punch ever fitted to an RAF fighter at that time. A Beau's 'caress' was usually fatal - as a host of enemies came to know to their cost. Nor was this toughness limited to appearance only. The Beau was built 'like a proverbial brick out-house' (in the words of one Beau pilot), able to absorb a staggering amount of structural damage and still deliver a live crew from the debris.
The theme of this book is simple - to attempt to re-create something of the authentic 'feel' and general atmosphere of Beaufighter operations during the years 1940-45, as seen through the eyes and words of the men best qualified to do that, the Beau crews, air and ground.