Publisher's Synopsis
Aircraft carriers serve as seagoing airbases, equipped with a flight deck and facilities for carrying, arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. ... By the Second World War aircraft carriers had evolved from converted cruisers to purpose-built vessels of many classes and roles.
The author's thrilling memoir takes you right into the cockpit in a way few writers have ever managed. The lethal world of the wartime Royal Navy carrier pilot, with its casual and shocking violence, horrific attrition, yet extraordinary camaraderie is so vividly brought to life that one can almost smell the smoke, oil, and sweat. Real, adrenalin-charged, and ridiculously dangerous flying, Hanson's account is an aviation classic that has to be read
