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Dam Busters: The True Story Of The Legendary Raid On The Ruhr (2012)

by James Holland(Favorite Author)

4.14 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0593066766 (ISBN13: 9780593066768)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Bantam Press

review 1: The story of 617 squadron - the dam busters - is a well known one, especially in the UK, where it's popular because it combines two qualities the British like to ascribe to themselves. One is brilliant quirky eccentric genius - which, in this case, yields a highly improbable bouncing bomb - and the other is understated resolve and courage under fire - personified here by the airmen who flew the dam-busting mission (many of whom were, in fact, from Australia, New Zealand, Canada or the US). The story has been told many times before - most notably in Paul Brickhill's 1950's classic - but author James Holland does an excellent job of telling it again - with, as he states, additional information drawn from sources that were not available to other authors. Highly recomme... morended.
review 2: Great and interesting book on the British plans to develop a bomb to destroy the Ruhr valley dams in Germany. The bomb was known as the "bouncing bomb". It took some daring British pilots and training to accomplish the mission. The dams produced the power supply for the Nazi war machine in the making of their weapons. It was the mission of the British Lancaster bombers and their pilots to destroy the dams. less

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