Duty Calls: Battle of Britain by James Holland - ISBN: 9780141332208
Paperback
Young pilot faces Nazi invasion: Britain’s darkest hour awaits.

Duty Calls: Battle of Britain

World War 2 Fiction

$27.40

  • Paperback

    352 pages

  • Release Date

    20 June 2012

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Summary

The second book in the blockbuster DUTY CALLS series which throws you deep into the heart - and horror - of the Second World War.

Pilot officer Archie Jackson, 19, is in control of the RAF’s newest fighter aircraft, a Supermarine Spitfire. Now he has the Luftwaffe in his sights and only one thing matters - defending Britain.

Suddenly planes are falling from the sky, exploding and spiralling into the English Channel. France has fallen and the swastika flies over Occupied Europe…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141332208
ISBN-10:0141332204
Author:James Holland
Publisher:Penguin Random House Children's UK
Imprint:Puffin
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:352
Edition:2nd
Release Date:20 June 2012
Weight:246g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 22mm
Series:Duty Calls
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Critics Review

“Plenty of action… sharp dialogue and swift characterisation. The whole is intelligently structured so that this is absorbing and thoughtful as well as tense and exciting.”

“Plenty of action… sharp dialogue and swift characterisation. The whole is intelligently structured so that this is absorbing and thoughtful as well as tense and exciting.” –Daily Telegraph on Blood of Honour

About The Author

James Holland

James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories he has presented - and written - a large number of television programmes and series. He has a weekly Second World War podcast, We Have of Making You Talk, with Al Murray, and is Chair of the Chalke Valley History Festival. He is a research fellow at St Andrew’s University.

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