A new edition of Hillary's memoirs of his time as a fighter pilot in WWII, first published in 1942, months before he died. With an introduction by Sebastian Faulks, who wrote about Hillary in }The Fatal Englishmen{ In this extraordinary account, the author details his experiences as a fighter pilot in the Second World War, in which he was shot down, leading to months in hospital as part of Archibald McIndoe's 'Guinea Pig Club', undergoing pioneering plastic surgery to rebuild his face and hands.
