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David Braham
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Six Sovereigns of Song
Excerpt from Six Sovereigns of Song: Lectures It is generally said that Braham had been so poor that he had had to sell pencils in the street. But I do not picture him as a street urchin badly fed and clothed, out in all weathers. I do not think he could have had that beautiful boy's voice if that had been the case, and the late Lady Strachie has left it on record that she did not believe the legend. But there may be this in it - I remember my grandfather, John Levien, saying that Braham as a boy sold pencils at the entrance to the Stock Exchange, and Mr. Paul Emden tells us in his book The Jews of Britain that pencil making was a Jewish trade. Braham when a child did not receive any regular...
Scramble!
J. R. D. ‘Bob’ Braham was Britain’s most-decorated fighter pilot and one of the most successful fighter pilots of World War II. Joining the RAF in 1938 at the age of 18, he was posted to No. 29 Squadron at Debdon, where he learned to fly the Hawker Hurricane and Bristol Blenheim. By 1939, the squadron had become a specialised night fighting unit and Braham gained his first victory in August 1940. From that point on, he was constantly in action. Famed for his individual night-time intruder sorties, he also took part in the Peenemiinde raid, the Battle of Britain, and the fight against the V1s and V2s during the Blitz. In 1943, battle fatigued, he moved into an operational role but conti...
Henry VII
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