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Flight Lieutenant Richard Hope Hillary (20 April 1919 – 8 January 1943) was an Anglo-Australian Royal Air Force fighter pilot during the Second World War. He wrote the book The Last Enemy about his experiences during the Battle of Britain .
28 de fev. de 2014 · A documentary from 2000 describing the life of Richard Hillary who was born in Sydney, Australia, in 1919. He was sent to boarding school in England and went to Trinity College,...
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13 de out. de 2022 · Moments after his Spitfire aircraft became engulfed by flames in 1940, Richard Hillary was in freefall above the North Sea. After recovering from horrific burns, he produced a memoir that is still ...
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The Last Enemy (first published in America as Falling Through Space), is a war memoir written by the Second World War Anglo-Australian fighter pilot Richard Hillary detailing his experiences during the Battle of Britain in 1940.
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22 de set. de 2008 · The authoritative biography of the WWII ace fighter pilot, hero of the Battle of Britain and author of the classic wartime memoir The Last Enemy. As both a...
This book would go on to become an international bestseller and earn Hillary a reputation as one of Britain’s best writers of World War II. This reputation became itself mythical when Hillary died in a crash during night-training flight on 8 January 1943 near RAF Charterhall.
Richard Hillary : the definitive biography of a Battle of Britain fighter pilot and author of The last enemy. Hillary, Richard, 1919-1943, Great Britain. Royal Air Force -- History, Fighter pilots -- Great Britain -- Biography, World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.
