Research Catalog

Title

Flying for freedom / Alois Siska ; translated by Dagmar Johnson-Siskova.

Author

Siska, Alois, 1914-2003

Publication

Barnsley [England] : Pen & Sword Aviation, 2008.

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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.

Language (note)

• Translated from the 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.

ISBN

• 184415730X
• 9781844157303

LCCN

2009292346

OCLC

• ocn229464294
• 229464294
• SCSB-1485800

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library