Billy Bishop was fiercely ambitious, driven by an undisguised hatred of
his enemies. He played hard and fought even harder. A highly skilled
pilot and a crack shot, "top gun" of the Allied air forces, by 1918
Bishop was the most highly decorated war hero in Canadian history.
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/>He remains the most controversial. Some of Bishop's fellow pilots
were repelled by his grandstanding and suspected he was deliberately
inflating his number of "kills." Since then, the claim has been repeated
by many others. This issue is at the heart of Billy Bishop: Canadian
Hero.
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/>In this updated second edition, author Dan McCaffery reviews the
evidence in support his account of what Bishop really did in the skies
over France, setting the record straight about one of this country's
most famous and controversial figures.