Men of air
Subtitle: doomed youth of Bomber Command, 1944
By: Kevin Wilson
Publisher: Cassell
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9781407221304
Subjects: History; World War, 1939-1945; British Aerial operations; Regimental histories; Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945; Opérations aériennes britanniques; Histoire des unités; Aerial Military operations; British; Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Bomber Command; Great Britain
Description: The winter of 1944 was the most dangerous time to be combat airman in RAF Bomber Command. The chances of surviving a tour were as low as on in five, and moral had hit rock bottom. Men of Air is the extraordinary story of ordinary young men coping with the constant pressure of flying, loss of colleauges, and the threat of capture. -- back cover.
Notes: Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 414-416) and index.