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Last Enemy: Peenguin Centenary Collection

ISBN 
9781405937504
Format 
Paperback
Recommended Price 
R215.00
Published 
August 2018
About the book: 
In 1918, the RAF was established as the world's first independent air force.  To mark the 100th anniversary of its creation, Penguin are publishing the Centenary Collection, a series of six classic books highlighting the skill, heroism and esprit de corps that have characterised the Royal Air Force throughout its first century.
 
The Last Enemy is Richard Hillary's extraordinary account of his experience as a Spitfire pilot in the Second World War.  Hillary was shot down during the Battle of Britain, leading to months in hospital as part of Archibald McIndoe's 'Guinea Pig Club', undergoing pioneering plastic surgery to rebuild his face and hands. 
 
The Last Enemy was first published in 1942, just seven months before Hilary's untimely death in a second crash and has gone on to be hailed as one of the classic texts of World War II.

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