The author of the best-selling Fortress Malta, Battle of Britain, and Dam Busters, he has written 9 works of historical fiction. Because this was written before the war ended and much of the technology used was cloaked in secrecy, there's a certain amount of obfuscation and the dams raid itself only takes up about 20 percent of the book. His campaigns, interspersed with fighter sortees, talks in relative detail, security allowing, about his companions, aircraft and methods of warfare. The book covers his career in the Royal Air Force from the beginning of the war where he flew the obsolete Handley Page Hampden into battle through to the end including the famous Dambusters Raid.

He gives a person view of the training and preparations for flying missions into Germany and does so in layman's language without a lot of difficult technical detail. He quickly learned how to stay alive and rapidly grew in experience and maturity, rising from Pilot Officer to a highly decorated Wing Commander. It is also an insider's account that sets down in clear, honest detail the challenges that the RAF faced in the war against Germany s Luftwaffe. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there’s something for every literary palate.

Pen and Sword's revised, updated and beautiful new edition of Gibson's own story in his own words is guaranteed to move its readers just as I was moved and inspired back in the late 1950s.

This isn't fiction, this isn't a fantasy story with cute characters, sarcastic lines and an epic quest to save the world, this is harsh reality.Next: I've read the Brickhill, Holland and Hastings books and seen the movie a gazillon times (not a million but feels like it). Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. clean and unmarked within but with name of former owner, Gail Borden of United Air Lines, on front end page--inlaid is letter to Mr. Illustrations are limited, and consist mainly of pre "Dam Raid" photographs, taken just before takeoff.

Guy Gibson led a critical raid against three dams in the Ruhr Valley - his squadron is still known as the Dam Busters.It’s astonishing from this distance of time to consider that he had risen to the rank of Wing Commander, won the DSO (and bar), DFC (and bar), the Victoria Cross, the Commander of the Legion of Merit, commanded the most famous WW2 RAF squadron and led its most famous raid all before the age of 26! I enjoyed this book, as it gives an insight into a man who was not super human, but just a man in an unimaginable time of war and uncertainty.