Summary
Richard Hillary: The Last Enemy
Since its first publication in 1942, The Last Enemy has not left the bookstore shelves. Which is not accidental and even less undeserved.
This, in the opinion of many, the best book ever written about the Second
World War, tells the story of a lost generation, literally burned at the wheel of a Spitfire in the short-lived but decisive Battle of Britain, in a blunt and exactly pilot-measured language. Which in deceptively simple language
tells a deceptively simple story about love and death, defeat and
victory, triumph and the wounds of a youth that
was burned without knowing itself.
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