Dam Buster: Life of Guy Gibson, VC - Couverture souple

Ottaway, Susan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0850525039 ISBN 13 : 9780850525038

Editeur : Pen & Sword Books Ltd, 1996

Synopsis

By the time he was killed in September 1944, after directing a successful raid against the German towns of Rheydt and Munchen-Gladbach, Guy Gibson was one of the mo st highly decorated RAF officers of the Second World War. '

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

FEW MEN HAVE A BETTER CLAIM TO BE CALLED A LEGEND IN THEIR OWN LIFETIME THAN GUY GIBSON.

Leader of the famous Dambuster Raid of May 1943, which became part of the popular folklore of the Second World War after the film in which Richard Todd took the part of the hero, Gibson himself was tragically in an air crash in 1944.

Born in India in 1918 and brought up in England, Guy Gibson joined the RAF in November 1936. Thereafter his career can be seen as a battle between, on the one hand, his uncertain temperament and less than ideal private life, and, on the other, his undoubted skills as an airman and as a leader of men.

The war was to bring him adventure and, later, fame. He took part in the first aerial attack of the war, on the Kiel Canal; he served in Fighter Command and then, in 1943, came the famous raid on the Mohne and Eder dams for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

By now a hero of international fame, he was sent on a Public Relations tour of North America, but he was above all a flyer and, refusing to remain grounded, he died an airman’s death.

This new edition, which draws on conversations with members of Gibson’s family and on notes made by his widow, expands upon his early life in a severely dysfunctional family, his unhappy marriage and the possible reason for his untimely death in September 1944.

Biographie de l'auteur

Susan Ottaway has had a lifelong enthusiasm for aeroplanes, books and twentieth century history. She worked for four different airlines over a period of 20 years, mainly in the UK but also in Germany and Australia, and wrote her first book, a biography of Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, before leaving the world of aviation. She has since written seven more books including the acclaimed Fly with the Stars, a history of British South American Airways, with her brother and co-author Ian Ottaway, and the bestselling Sisters, Secrets and Sacrifice, the story of Jacqueline and Eileen Nearne who were agents with the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War. She lives in Hampshire with Nick and their dog and three cats.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0850525039
• ISBN 13: 9780850525038
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible