DUEL OF EAGLES by Peter Townsend. 480 pages. Simon & Schuster. $9.95.
He won the heart of the little Princess and then failed to win her hand. That is how the world remembers him: an unsuccessful suitor, elegant and somehow attenuated. Fifteen years later, exGroup Captain and Royal Equerry Peter Townsend finds a role more comfortable for a dashing fighter pilot as the author of a real-life adventure yarn.
Part of it is oft-rehashed history—that moment late in 1940 when the outmanned Royal Air Force took on Hitler's Luftwaffe and changed the course of World...
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