Battle Orders: a docu-drama of a young Lancaster crew's experiences in 1945 - Couverture souple

Culling, George

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1911593773 ISBN 13 : 9781911593775

Editeur : Arena Books, 2020

Synopsis

A young Lancaster crew's battles over the skies of Germany in a series of highly-dangerous operations. Every event described in this fictional account actually occurred, often many times. Ploughing through skies pockmarked with the smoke of exploding shells from anti-aircraft guns, and coned by dozens of searchlights, they also faced the bullets and canon shells of night fighters.

A different kind of danger, but sometimes no less deadly, often took place in appalling weather conditions. Caught, for instance, in a massive cumulonimbus cloud their aircraft might be battered by hailstones while being tossed up and down hundreds of feet in vicious convection currents, with ice forming up to six inches thick on the wings, and threatening its ability to remain airborne.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Following RAF service as a navigator, George Culling was successively a teacher, head teacher, principal lecturer in a polytechnic and director of the Schools and Teacher Training Dept of the British Council. He has been married to Maureen for seventy years and they have three sons, six grandchildren and one great grandson. 'Battle Stations: the story of a young Lancaster crew' is a fact-based work of fiction, which includes dramatic incidents in the skies over Germany, the fears, hopes and aspirations of the seven nineteen-year-old airmen, and progress in the closing stages of the Second World War. George is also the author of Tales of Lancasters and Other Aircraft.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Arena Books
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1911593773
• ISBN 13: 9781911593775
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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