Billy Bishop: Canadian Hero - Softcover

McCaffery, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550287680 ISBN 13: 9781550287684

Publisher: Lorimer, 2002

Synopsis

Billy Bishop was fiercely ambitious, driven by an undisguised hatred of his enemies. He played hard and fought even harder. A highly skilled pilot and a crack shot, "top gun" of the Allied air forces, by 1918 Bishop was the most highly decorated war hero in Canadian history.

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/>He remains the most controversial. Some of Bishop's fellow pilots were repelled by his grandstanding and suspected he was deliberately inflating his number of "kills." Since then, the claim has been repeated by many others. This issue is at the heart of Billy Bishop: Canadian Hero.

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/>In this updated second edition, author Dan McCaffery reviews the evidence in support his account of what Bishop really did in the skies over France, setting the record straight about one of this country's most famous and controversial figures.

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 Journalism Program at Lambton College of Applied Arts and Technology. He previously worked for the Sarnia Gazette and now works at the Sarnia Observer where he is the assignment editor. He has won three Canadian News Awards, two Ontario News Awards, and a Western Ontario News Award. He lives in Sarnia.

Review:

"This is a solid, no-nonsense book, an important one that lays the Bishop controversy to rest... a tour de force of research..." (Vancouver Sun 2002-11-09)

"A meticulously researched book." (Ian Gillespie London Free Press 2002-11-09)

About this edition

• Publisher: Lorimer
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1550287680
• ISBN 13: 9781550287684
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 240