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Last of the Lancasters
Martin Bowman
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Description for Last of the Lancasters
Hardcover. The latest release in what has become a trio of commemorative books, celebrating the might of the indomitable Lancaster Bomber. Num Pages: 264 pages, 32pp B&W Photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJF; HBWQ; JWG; JWMV3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 240 x 26. Weight in Grams: 800.
'The Lancasters looked like enormous deadly black birds going off into the night; somehow they looked different when they came back. The planes carried from this field 117,000 pounds of high explosives and the crews flew all night to drop the load as ordered. Now the trains would not run between France and Italy for a while, not on those bombed tracks anyhow. Here are the men who did it, with mussed hair and weary faces, dirty sweaters under their flying suits, sleep-bright eyes, making humble comradely little jokes and eating their saved-up chocolate bars' - Martha Gellhorn This ... Read more
'The Lancasters looked like enormous deadly black birds going off into the night; somehow they looked different when they came back. The planes carried from this field 117,000 pounds of high explosives and the crews flew all night to drop the load as ordered. Now the trains would not run between France and Italy for a while, not on those bombed tracks anyhow. Here are the men who did it, with mussed hair and weary faces, dirty sweaters under their flying suits, sleep-bright eyes, making humble comradely little jokes and eating their saved-up chocolate bars' - Martha Gellhorn This ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pen & Sword Aviation
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783831746
SKU
V9781783831746
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-2
About Martin Bowman
Martin Bowman is one of Britain's best-known Second World War aviation historians and authors. His previous books have included works such as Legend of the Lancaster, Confounding the Reich, Duxford and the Big Wings, Clash of Eagles, Mosquito: Menacing the Reich and numerous titles in the exhaustive Air War series providing extensive coverage of operations carried out on D-Day and ... Read more
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