Dambuster
By: Robert Radcliffe
Edition: Large print ed.
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781445857800; 9781445857817
Subjects: Fiction; Military Air pilots; World War, 1939-1945; British Aerial operations; Campaigns; Large type books; Pilotes d'aéronef militaires; Romans, nouvelles; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945; Opérations aériennes britanniques; Campagnes et batailles; Livres en gros caractères; Large print books; Military campaigns; Aerial Military operations; British; Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 617; Great Britain
Description: "Lincolnshire May 1943. Twenty Lancaster bombers stand poised to fly one of World War 2's most daring and dangerous missions, 617 Squadron's legendary bouncing-bomb attack on Germany's dams. Success could shorten the war, the crews are told, but will inevitably come at a cost. Many of them, hand-picked by their charismatic if volatile leader, Guy Gibson, will not be coming back. After two tours of duty and fifty-nine missions, combat-seasoned pilot Peter Lightfoot and his loyal crew are already on borrowed time. Narrowly escaping death on a disastrous final operation over the Alps, a flight which ends by ditching their wrecked Lancaster into the Atlantic, the seven men are at last relieved from operational flying, job done. But haunted by a face from his past, Lightfoot cannot rest, and unknown to his crew applies to join Gibson's 617 Squadron, and fly the dams mission. A mission many see as certain suicide."--Publisher description.