Description: Further DetailsTitle: Enemy Coast AheadCondition: NewEAN: 9781784384906ISBN: 9781784384906Publisher: Greenhill BooksFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/19/2019Item Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmAuthor: Guy GibsonLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: The Illustrated Memoir of Dambuster Guy GibsonDescription: Prior to World War Two, Wing Commander Guy Gibson joined the Royal Air Force. In 1944, he wrote down his experience of serving in the RAF.Aged just 25, Gibson had completed two full tours, each of 30 operations, with Bomber Command, and had led the now-famous Dam Busters raid against the dams of the Ruhr Valley in May 1943. He died aged 26 in 1944, when his Mosquito crashed near Steenbergen in the Netherlands.Gibson's story is an incredible one. He struggled daily to work the Handley Page Hampden, and then the Avro Manchester, flying both into enemy airspace with great difficulty. He goes into detail on this, describing the troubles facing him, and how he managed to overcome them.He also addresses the rapid professionalisation of the Bomber Command. At the start of the war, they seemed ill-equipped and unprepared to confront Germany, but they grew in confidence and stature, to represent one of the defining units of the Second World War. Gibson recounts this change.Country/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: BiographyRelease Year: 2019 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Enemy Coast Ahead
Title: Enemy Coast Ahead
EAN: 9781784384906
ISBN: 9781784384906
Release Date: 09/19/2019
Release Year: 2019
Item Height: 198mm
Subtitle: The Illustrated Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Book Title: Enemy Coast Ahead : the Illustrated Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson
Number of Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books The Limited
Publication Year: 2019
Topic: Military / World War II, Modern / 20th Century, Military / Aviation, World
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History
Author: Guy Gibson
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
