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Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940–1945

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Description for Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940–1945 Paperback. Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan McGregor. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JJH; HBJD; HBWQ; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 33. Weight in Grams: 380.

Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan McGregor.

They came from every corner of Britain and its Empire. They were the best of their generation…heading for one of the worst tasks of WWII.

Like RAF pilots, the thousands of brave young men who joined Bomber Command took to the ... Read more

Yet with an average life expectancy shorter than that of soldiers on the Western front in WWI, these men faced death, injury and capture time and again to send bombs through the shrieking flak onto enemy territory. ‘Bomber Boys’ is a tribute to their strength, courage and heroism – filling in the historical blanks and immortalising their memory.

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Product Details

Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007192151
SKU
V9780007192151
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-7

About Patrick Bishop
Patrick Bishop is a senior correspondent for the Daily Telegraph and author of ‘The Irish Empire’; with Eamonn Mallie, the acclaimed book ‘The Provisional IRA’, and the bestselling ‘Fighter Boys’.

Reviews for Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940–1945
‘A superb human portrait.’ Daily Mail ‘A deeply humane, lucidly written and powerful tribute to some of the unsung heroes of the Second World War.’ Michael Burleigh, Sunday Times ‘Superbly written and authoritative…the members of Bomber ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940–1945


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