Enemy Coast Ahead (Bomber crews) - Softcover

Gibson, Guy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0907579620 ISBN 13: 9780907579625

Publisher: Goodall Publications Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

First published in 1944, Guy Gibson's Enemy Coast Ahead quickly became regarded as the classic Bomber Command book, following Gibson's RAF career from flying the Hampden and Manchester at the beginning of WWII to the triumphant return home of the Lancasters from the famous 1943 Dambuster raid which Gibson led and for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Enemy Coast Ahead is also the inside story of life in Bomber Command throughout the first five years of WW2, culminating in breath-holding drama as the RAF planned, practiced and strove towards breaching the dams on that famous night in May 1943.

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Review:

`I dedicate this book to the boys who have not been so lucky...'
If this book doesn't stir the senses and inspire patriotism, nothing will, being Wing Commander Guy Gibson, VC's own personal account of his wartime flying, including the attack on the Ruhr dams which earned him the Victoria Cross...
`The smell of burnt cordite. The cold sweat beneath my oxygen mask. The closeness of the dam wall... We saw the tremendous earthquake which shook the base of the dam, and then, as if a gigantic hand had punched a hole through cardboard, the whole thing collapsed.'
--Best of British Magazine - December 2011

Synopsis:

In this book, Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC writes affectionately about his beloved aircrews, describing in great detail the nightly drama of the bomber squadrons searching out their targets in the dangerous skies over Nazi Germany.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Goodall Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0907579620
• ISBN 13: 9780907579625
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288