First Light
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  • Published: 17 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241984031
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $22.99
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Battle of Britain memoir by Geoffrey Wellum, the youngest Spitfire pilot of the prestigious 92 Squadron, part of the Centenary Collection (100 Years of the RAF)

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 esprit de corps that have characterised the Royal Air Force throughout its first century.

Two months before the outbreak of the Second World War, eighteen-year-old Geoffrey Wellum becomes a fighter pilot with the RAF...

Desperate to get in the air, he makes it through basic training to become the youngest Spitfire pilot in the prestigious 92 Squadron. Thrust into combat almost immediately, Wellum finds himself flying several sorties a day, caught up in terrifying dogfights with German Me 109s.

Over the coming months he and his fellow pilots play a crucial role in the Battle of Britain. But of the friends that take to the air alongside Wellum many never return.
  • Published: 17 May 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241984031
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $22.99
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Other books in the series
The Last Enemy
Richard Hillary
Immediate Response
Mark Hammond
Going Solo
Roald Dahl
Tumult in the Clouds
James Goodson
First Light
Geoffrey Wellum

Praise for First Light

An extraordinarily deeply moving and astonishingly evocative story. Reading it, you feel you are in the Spitfire with him, at 20,000ft, chased by a German Heinkel, with your ammunition gone

Independent

A brilliantly fresh, achingly written memoir. Thrilling and frightening on virtually page . . . Wellum takes you into battle with him. A book for all ages and generations, a treasure

Daily Express

Vivid, wholly convincing, compelling. One of the best memoirs for years about the experience of flying in war

Max Hastings, Sunday Telegraph

Amazing fresh and immediate . . . absolutely honest, it is an extraordinarily gripping and powerful story

Evening Standard
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