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"'A good, tense reporting job...the author allows these veterans to tell the key elements of their stories mainly in their own words yet still brings out the excitement and terror of their recollections.' Journal of Aircrew Association 'A very good read going a long way to helping understand what those chaps went through to achieve victory.' Bomber Command Historical Society Journal"
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On a dark desperate night in June 1943 a stricken Halifax bomber limped low over Holland and crashed in a small meadow of cows. The aircraft was wrecked, but its crew, amazingly, stepped out alive and completely unhurt - just one of the twenty new and true stories of bravery, survival and luck, good and bad, contained in this book.
'A good, tense reporting job...the author allows these veterans to tell the key elements of their stories mainly in their own words yet still brings out the excitement and terror of their recollections.' - Journal of Aircrew Assocation
'A very good read going a long way to helping understand what those chaps went through to achieve victory.' - Bomber Command Historical Society Journal
'A good, tense reporting job...the author allows these veterans to tell the key elements of their stories mainly in their own words yet still brings out the excitement and terror of their recollections.' - Journal of Aircrew Assocation
'A very good read going a long way to helping understand what those chaps went through to achieve victory.' - Bomber Command Historical Society Journal
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22 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Tells twenty stories of the bravery and fortitude of pilots and their crews. The narratives are supplemented by a superb plate section which contains a number of photographs I have not seen reproduced elsewhere.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read quite a few books on the lives and escapades of servicemen and women during WWII and usually they focus on a particular incident, campaign, operation or life story. This book is different - it recounts the stories of differrent aircrew and their reminiscences of their service. It gives a background to their lives and families and highlights the every day life of aircrew - boredom and terror, punctuated and often terminated by danger, destruction and death.
There are twenty chapters, each about the experiences of one man and his aircrew. It's not all boys-own adventure - we hear about the everyday things as well as the derring-do. There's no doubt that these are brave ordinary men, thrust into a life of danger. We learn about the small things that the crew did to promote luck and well-being and we learn why flying in a bomber is dangerous - certainly not just because the enemy are trying to kill you.
The book describes extraordinary bravery and a determination to hang on to life and return home to britain to do the most ordinary of things. No other book that I have read, has shown so well how the very smallest innocuous thing can turn out to be a matter of life and death - collecting a bicycle or having your mask microphone fail can save your life. There is great poignancy - the happy picture of an aircrew taken five days before five of them were killed.
The book has humanity flowing through it - acts of bravery and kindness - amongst the aircrew, occupied people and even from some of the Germans that captured some of the crew. The incredible luck that let people return to tell us their story.
Highly recommended. Very well written. It has been a priviledge to have a brief glimpse into the lives of our airmen. Thank you.
There are twenty chapters, each about the experiences of one man and his aircrew. It's not all boys-own adventure - we hear about the everyday things as well as the derring-do. There's no doubt that these are brave ordinary men, thrust into a life of danger. We learn about the small things that the crew did to promote luck and well-being and we learn why flying in a bomber is dangerous - certainly not just because the enemy are trying to kill you.
The book describes extraordinary bravery and a determination to hang on to life and return home to britain to do the most ordinary of things. No other book that I have read, has shown so well how the very smallest innocuous thing can turn out to be a matter of life and death - collecting a bicycle or having your mask microphone fail can save your life. There is great poignancy - the happy picture of an aircrew taken five days before five of them were killed.
The book has humanity flowing through it - acts of bravery and kindness - amongst the aircrew, occupied people and even from some of the Germans that captured some of the crew. The incredible luck that let people return to tell us their story.
Highly recommended. Very well written. It has been a priviledge to have a brief glimpse into the lives of our airmen. Thank you.
29 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The book contains the first real information on the fate suffered by my Mother law's first husband a member of the crew of a Halifax (Casey's) shot down over Warsaw. The book was picked up quite by chance and revealed that the Pilot went to his grave blaming himself for (what he thought was )the needless deaths of some of his crew. Regrettably communication between him, the other survivors, or the RAF did not take place in the intervening years with her... but at least now some of the facts are known to her. At a time when our Society has an urgent need to know and a 'someone must be to blame' attitude it's revealing (and humbling) to read these stories of courage by ordinary people and to wonder 'just how they could stare death in the face' so calmly day after day.
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