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A Bomber Command classic depicting the deep feelings associated with the human cost of the air war in World War II.
This is the breathtaking story of a wartime bomber crew facing the hazards of bombing strongly defended targets. A navigator with the RAAF based at Elsham Wolds, Charlwood writes sympathetically and understandingly of the hopes and fears of the crews as squadron losses mounted
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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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This account of an Australian Navigator's experiences during a tour of 30 Operations in WW2 is the most moving and descriptive account I have read. The book concentrates on the individual and the toll that the raids over Germany took both on the person and the larger RAF community. It decribes in detail through honest words the fear that the aircrew were exposed to, night after night and the reality that the odds against their survival were against them. It does not take much imagination to place yourself in the frame of a Lancaster as it sets out across the North Sea with a crew of men all thinking similar thoughts with the full knowledge that you may not return. I would recommend this book to anybody who wants an impression of what it was really like to face a tour of Operations in Bomber Command during WW2.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Don Charlwood's account of life in Bomber Command Aircrews is first rate. I could not put the book down. He covers the raids and tells it like it was. He tells of a cool dedicated professionalism where unpleasant deaths happened almost every night. No-one flinched. No-one asked to drop out. They knew they stood little chance of survival. The searchlights, flak and nightfighters lay in wait over Essen, Duisburg, Berlin but still they kept flying. More good friends disappeared each time.
Despite the carnage Charlwood maintains his essential humanity and convinces of the rightness of his cause. For a reader who wants to know what it was like to take on an implacable foe in world war 2, this is the book!
Despite the carnage Charlwood maintains his essential humanity and convinces of the rightness of his cause. For a reader who wants to know what it was like to take on an implacable foe in world war 2, this is the book!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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''What are the losses on each raid?'
'They say five per cent.'
"Five per cent and we do thirty ops.' He considered this thoughtfully. 'We sort of end up owing something.'
'They say five per cent.'
"Five per cent and we do thirty ops.' He considered this thoughtfully. 'We sort of end up owing something.'
I believe we owe a great debt to the brave boys of Bomber Command who knew they were unlikely to survive. This account from an Australian sergeant navigator tells you what it was like to fly over Germany from Lincolnshire, to kill and probably to die. The author's crew were the first in seven months to actually complete a thirty flight tour of operations from their airfield. In 1941 he had trained with twenty compatriots. 18 were destined for Bomber Command. At the end of the war 12 were dead and one a prisoner. It was, he says, an average group. I am ashamed that my country never gave the airmen of Bomber Command a campaign medal.
Here you really get a feel of what it was like to be so young with no more ambition that to reach your next short leave. Wartime romance is related and the discovery of the village his family came from and his ancestors' graves.
The first time my parents saw the house where I was to grow up, there was a Halifax bomber crashed outside. I played as a boy in the peaceful ruins of the disused former bomber airfield from which men like Charlwood had flown less than ten years before. A different world so well narrated in this book.
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Bomber Command Revealed
A wonderful book giving great insight into the world of these fighting flying men of WWII. Along with 'Glass Houses, Paper Men', this is one of the best reads and revelations into... Read more
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Beautifully written, hauntingly evocative
One of the most beautifully written war memoirs I have come across. Don Charlwood writes with modesty and feeling about his harrowing experiences as a Lancaster pilot during WWII. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Tobes
An outstanding first hand account of the Bomber War
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I haven't read it yet.But I know it's good because of the reviews I've read by other people.And thats good enough for me.
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Don trained at Halfpenny Green
Living 20 mins away from Halfpenny Green Airport, one day I was walking over to the control tower when I noticed a bench seat. Being nosey I took a look. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Susan Sant
A superb Read
No Moon Tonight is a superb read.I have read this book several times
over a period of years and never once got bored with the read. Read more
over a period of years and never once got bored with the read. Read more
Published 17 months ago by John R
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this book is sentimental to me as the author, Don charlwood was the pilot of the lancaster which my great uncle Frank Holmes was the rear gunner. Read more
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