Piece of Cake (novel)
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Piece of Cake is a 1983 novel by Derek Robinson which follows a fictional Royal Air Force fighter squadron through the first year of World War II, and the Battle of Britain. It was later made into the
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Phoney War
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The Phoney War was an eight-month period at the outset of World War II, lasting from September 1939 to May 1940, during which there were virtually no major Allied military land operations on the Weste
Piece of Cake (novel)
…amongst his pilots and adherence to the textbook tactics of the RAF including close-formation flying and the cumbersome 'fighting area' attacks. The Phoney-War begins as winter sets in. Pilot Officer 'Moggy' Cattermole bullies several of the other pilots, in particularly young Dickie Starr and mentally fragile…
An 8-inch (203.2 mm) howitzer of the British Expeditionary Force in France during the Phoney War
People of Warsaw outside the British Embassy with a banner which says "Long live England!" just after the British declaration of war with Nazi Germany
A French soldier outside a Reichskolonialbund office in Lauterbach during the Saar Offensive
British Army and French Air Force personnel outside a dugout in France in 1939