And some fell on stony ground
Subtitle: a day in the life of an RAF bomber pilot : a fictional memoir
By: by Leslie Mann ; with an introduction by Richard Overy, author of The bombing war
Contributors: Imperial War Museum (Great Britain)
Publisher: Icon Books; Icon Books, Limited
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781848317208; 9781848317543
Subjects: Great Britain. Royal Air Force; Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Bomber Command; British Aerial operations; British; Fiction; Aerial gunners; Englisch; Great Britain; World War, 1939-1945; Aerial Military operations; Erzählung; Armed Forces
Description: In June 1941, Flight Sergeant Leslie Mann, a tail gunner in a British bomber, was shot down over Germany and taken into captivity. After the war, wanting to record the experiences of the RAF's 'Bomber Boys', he wrote down his inner thoughts and feelings as a fictional narrative, recently brought to the attention of Imperial War Museums. Visceral, shocking and unglamorous, it transmits as rarely before the horrors of aerial warfare, the corrosive effects of fear, and the psychological torment of the young men involved. Although presented as fiction, the book's solid basis in lived experience makes it ring true - the sights, sounds, smells, and above all the emotional strain are intensely evoked with a novelist's skill.
Notes: Published in association with the Imperial War Museums.