Billy Bishop, Canadian Hero (Goodread Biographies) - Softcover

McCaffery, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887801587 ISBN 13: 9780887801587

Publisher: Formac, 1990

Synopsis

Billy Bishop is Canada's greatest air ace of all time. He was almost thrown out of military college for cheating, but he went on to become the most famous of the First World War fighter pilots.

Though he became a darling of the press, Bishop grew tired of the carnage of the war.

Author Dan McCaffery offers a lively, compelling portrait of Bishop. His meticulous research has settled, once and for all, the controversy over whether Bishop lied to win his Vicotria Cross.

Warts and all, Bishop emerges as a true Canadian hero.

About this title

About the Author:

DAN McCAFFERY is one of Canada's most successful military aviation history writers. He was born in Sarnia, Ontario, where he graduated from the the Journalism Program at Lambton College of Applied Arts and Technology. He worked for the Sarnia Gazette, a weekly newspaper, from 1974 to 1989 as a reporter and later as editor. Since 1989 he has worked at the daily newspaper the Sarnia Observer where he is currently the assignment editor. He has won three Canadian News Awards, two Ontario News Awards and a Western Ontario News Award. He is the author of Hell Island: Canadian Pilots and the 1942 Air Battle for Malta, Billy Bishop: Canadian Hero, Air Aces, Battlefields in the Air, Canadian Warplanes and Bush Planes and Bush Pilots. McCaffery and his wife Val have been married for 28 years.

Review:

"A fascinating story of a complex character told by a gifted storyteller." (Peter de Niverville Saint John Telegraph-Journal)

"Rich in detail, full of description and anecdotes ... [an entertaining read." (Murray Oxby Canadian Press)

"Impressive ... a convincing case." (Alberta Report)

"A carefully researched, warts-and-all account of that curious, endlessly fascinating corner of our history, and it's a good fast read. It's also a skillfully constructed portrait of that charming young man who had just the right qualities for heroism in that time and place." (John Gray Globe and Mail)

"A good book to suggest to someone who enjoys Canadian history." (CM Magazine [Canadian Materials)

"Dan McCaffery's book on Billy Bishop...is..a meticulously well researched, perceptive and analytical account of how William Avery Bishop [became a Canadian national hero." (Tina Viljoen & Gwynn Dyer Compass)

About this edition

• Publisher: Formac
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0887801587
• ISBN 13: 9780887801587
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218