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Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945 by Patrick Bishop (Paperback, 2008)

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Crucial in the heat of combat, they were politically awkward afterwards. Title: Bomber Boys. Format: Paperback. They were the best of their generation…heading for one of the worst tasks of WWII. Item Height: 198mm.

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Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan McGregor. In 'Fighter Boys' Patrick Bishop brought to life the pilots who flew Spitfires and Hurricanes in the summer of 1940. In 'Bomber Boys', Bishop tells a different but equally fascinating story. The 125,000 men from all over the world who passed through Bomber Command during the Second World War were engaged in a form of warfare that had never been implemented before and would never be again. Between 1940 and 1945 they flew continuously, stopping only when weather made operations impossible. For much of that time they were the only fighters capable of attacking Germany in its own territory. There was nothing romantic about their struggle. Often barely out of boyhood, they lived on bleak bases, flying at night on long, nerve-racking missions that often ended in death. The odds of surviving were stacked heavily against them. In all, 55,000 were killed, counting for nearly one in ten of all the British and Commonwealth war dead. Despite these sacrifices, the Bomber Boys have remained on the edges of our collective memory and their actions have been the subject of a controversy that continues to the present. In this powerful and moving work of history, Patrick Bishop compellingly captures the character, feelings and motivations of the bomber crews and pays tribute to their heroism and determination. 'Bomber Boys' brilliantly restores these men to their rightful place in our consciousness.

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Publisher
Harpercollins Publishers
ISBN-13
9780007192151
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Author
Patrick Bishop
Publication Name
Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940-1945
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Government, History
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
400 Pages

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198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
370g

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Patrick Bishop
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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