The Large Circus
the Large Circus is a book in three parts telling the adventure, since the beginning of the Second world war until the Armistice, of Pierre Clostermann.
In the first part, he tells his arrival with Biggin Hill, his insertion in the French flotilla Alsace and his first aerial combats against the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the German Focke-Wulf Fw 190 to protect the American bombers flying fortresses. In the second, it is about a transfer in the islands of Scapa Flow then unloading in Normandy. The third part is marked by the change of plane. It passes from the Spitfire to the Tempest and especially, it is about the end of the war. The large circus is an adaptation of the newspaper which the author wrote during the war, the aerial combats are remarkably told and Clostermann described very well the atmosphere and the spirit of frank friendship that it feels in the escadrilles that it attends.
The book was sold with more than 3 million specimens.
ISBN 2-08-068044-7 A new edition, increased new pages of the notebooks of Clostermann, as well as comments drawn from its later experiments, is appeared, always at Flammarion, in 2001, under the titer : the Large Circus 2000 .
Pierre Clostermann took part in the realization of a STRIP CARTOONS on " Large the cirque" in 1950. The illustration was carried out by Christian Mathelot. Flammarion editions.
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