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Damned Good Show
Derek Robinson
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Description for Damned Good Show
Paperback. Bomber crews brave German flak and fighter planes as the fightback begins. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 192 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
They joined an R.A.F. known as 'the best flying club in the world', but when war pitches the young pilots of 409 Squadron into battle over Germany, their training, tactics and equipment are soon found wanting, their twin-engined bombers obsolete from the off. Chances of completing a 30-operation tour? One in three. At best. Robinson's crooked salute to the dogged heroes of the R.A.F.'s early bombing campaign is a wickedly humourous portrait of men doing their duty in flying death traps, fully aware, in those dark days of war, there was nothing else to do but dig in and hang ... Read more
They joined an R.A.F. known as 'the best flying club in the world', but when war pitches the young pilots of 409 Squadron into battle over Germany, their training, tactics and equipment are soon found wanting, their twin-engined bombers obsolete from the off. Chances of completing a 30-operation tour? One in three. At best. Robinson's crooked salute to the dogged heroes of the R.A.F.'s early bombing campaign is a wickedly humourous portrait of men doing their duty in flying death traps, fully aware, in those dark days of war, there was nothing else to do but dig in and hang ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857051172
SKU
V9780857051172
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10
About Derek Robinson
Derek Robinson, the son of a policeman, read history at Cambridge before working in advertising in London and New York. His novel Goshawk Squadron was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1971.
Reviews for Damned Good Show
'Mordantly funny and, in its way, as loud an anti-battle cry as Catch 22' Toby Clements, Telegraph.
Telegraph
'Tough, taut prose that pulls you through the book like a steel cable' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian.
Guardian
Telegraph
'Tough, taut prose that pulls you through the book like a steel cable' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian.
Guardian