Quatrième de couverture
On the 17th of May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bomber crews gathered in the dark at a remote RAF station in Lincolnshire for a mission of extraordinary daring and high risk - a night raid on three crucial dams deep in the heart of Germany. To have any chance of success in destroying the heavily defended dams, the raiders would have to fly across occupied Europe under heavy flak and then drop their bombs with extraordinary precision at a mere 60 feet above the water. The success of their mission has passed into legend
Now those who were there share their first-hand accounts of the preparation, practice runs, planning, and the raid itself, including the sense of emptiness and loss when eight of the aircraft failed to return.
With eyewitness testimony from RAF air and ground crew, and German civilians who were saw and were affected by the raid, this landmark oral history is a moving and vivid account of one of the most famous bombing operations of all times.
MAX ARTHUR, who served with the RAF, is the author of The Sunday Times bestsellers and award-winning Forgotten Voices of the Great War and Forgotten Voices of the Second World War. His other titles include the classic work on the Falklands campaign, Above All, Courage, and Symbol of Courage: A History of the Victoria Cross. He is the military obituary writer for the Independent.
Présentation de l'éditeur
On 16 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster bomber crews gathered at a remote RAF station in Lincolnshire for a mission of extraordinary daring and high risk - a night raid on three crucial and heavily defended dams deep in the German industrial heartland. The raiders would have to fly across occupied Europe at a perilously low level and drop their bombs at a mere 60 feet above the water to destroy the dam walls. Eight planes never returned.
Bestselling author Max Arthur has collected together first-hand accounts of the preparation, practise, experimentation and the raid itself, and the sense of emptiness and loss at RAF Scampton when 56 men failed to return. From RAF personnel to German civilians who witnessed the raid, this landmark oral history collection paints a moving and personal picture of one of the most famous operations of the Second World War.
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