num_pages: 190
description: According to a recent international study, the Lightning is the fifth most popular military aircraft of all time. It has many thousands of devotees who are a ready market for this timely and entertaining book which, with over twenty individual stories from former Lightning pilots, relates the highs and lows, the dramas and the demands of those who operated this iconic aircraft from the sharp end.
language: English
title: The Lightning Boys: True Tales from Pilots of the English Electric Lightning
publisher: Grub Street Publishing