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The Eighth Passenger (Wordsworth Military Library) (Paperback)

by Miles Tripp (Author)
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  • Paperback: 202 pages
  • Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd; illustrated edition edition (30 Dec 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840222522
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840222524
  • Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.2 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 52,970 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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When The Eighth Passenger was first published it was acclaimed as one of the most remarkable first-hand accounts of combat flying in the Second World War. Over the years the author has learned much, which for security reasons, he could not have known at the time of the book's first publication. This edition, while retaining the integrity of the original, uses this added knowledge to reappraise the events of those fearful years. Seven young men, brought together by chance, and almost literally from the four corners of the earth, wake up day after day fully aware that the odds on their seeing another sunrise are relentlessly shortening. This story of a bomber crew flying through darkness and flak over Hamburg, Essen, Cologne, Dresden and Berlin, and always accompanied by an eighth passenger - fear - makes compulsive reading. Of nearly 7,500 Lancaster bombers built, no fewer than 3,349 were lost in action - killing nearly half of the young men who flew with Bomber Command.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly readable account of life in a World War 2 bomber crew, 28 April 2007
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This is one of many superb books written by Bomber Command veterans about their wartime experiences.

Miles Tripp was the bomb-aimer in a seven-man Lancaster crew, who flew on many night raids over Germany during the latter stages of Word War 2.

Tripp's compelling story quickly rewinds from his post-war life to his initiation into Bomber Command. Like all RAF bombers crews, their job was not complete until they had successfully completed a tour of thirty missions - a doubtful objective, given the many dangers that could prevent their safe return home and the frightening statistics of bomber crew losses.

As bomb-aimer, Tripp was the man with his 'finger on the trigger'; it was largely down to him to ensure their payload hit the target - or the mission would not count towards their goal of thirty, and the target may even have to be attacked again. Tripp provides a vivid portrayal of his thoughts and emotions during these highly dangerous nocturnal raids over many of Germany's cities, including Dresden.

This new edition of the book includes a supplementary chapter - the author's post-war reunions with his former crew. His old friends recollect their feelings towards one another and the Lancaster's omnipresent 'eighth passenger' - fear.
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