Flying for freedom
- Title
- Flying for freedom / Alois Siska ; translated by Dagmar Johnson-Siskova.
- Published by
- Barnsley [England] : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2008.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 175 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Flying for Freedom is the remarkable memoir of Alois Siska, a Czech pilot who flew for the Allies in the Second World War. He describes his experience flying Wellington bombers on missions over occupied Europe. The book goes on to recount Siska's experiences after he chose to return to his native country to join their air force but fell foul of the Communist authorities. His persecution is described in the closing chapters." "Flying for Freedom is an exceptional wartime flying, survival and POW memoir with the added interest of life under the post-war Communist yoke."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Siska, Alois, 1914-2003
- 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, Czech
- World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, British
- Bomber pilots > Czechoslovakia > Biography
- Bomber pilots
- Military operations, Aerial > British
- Flugzeugführer
- Zweiter Weltkrieg
- Luftwaffe
- Czechoslovakia
- Tschechoslowakei
- Großbritannien
- Tschechen
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives – Czech.
- Contents
- 1. Into the War -- 2. Direction South -- 3. Escape from the Citadel -- 4. Next Stop France -- 5. 311 Squadron -- 6. Night Battle -- 7. The Long Flights -- 8. Third Year -- 9. Wilhelmshaven -- 10. The Last Raid -- 11. Shipwrecked -- 12. Lost Hope -- 13. Happy New Year, 1942 -- 14. We Fight Death -- 15. Windmills -- 16. Terra Firma -- 17. Prisoners of War -- 18. Sagan -- 19. Arrest -- 20. The Gestapo Move In -- 21. Whatever Next? -- 22. Days of Freedom -- 23. Until the Bitter End.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Language (note)
- Translated from the Czech.