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Author : Guy Gibson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Enemy Coast Ahead written by Guy Gibson and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoff Simpson
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783469730
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Guy Gibson written by Geoff Simpson and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new assessment of the life of one of the most famous and controversial airmen of the Second World War, this book covers Guy Gibson's sometimes troubled upbringing and the impact on him of his time at St Edward's School, Oxford. In particular, the story of his career in the RAF is relayed, including his stunning leadership achievement in creating No 617 Squadron and leading its attack on the dams of western Germany. The much-discussed circumstances of his unnecessary death and the theories, which have grown up around it are examined, as well as his legacy—he remains a great British hero almost 70 years after his death in a world utterly different to the one he knew.
Author : Charles Foster
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750988487
Total Pages : 511 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Complete Dambusters written by Charles Foster and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 16 May 1943, nineteen Lancaster aircraft from the RAF's 617 Squadron set off to attack the great dams in the industrial heart of Germany. Flying at a height of 60ft, they dropped a series of bombs which bounced across the water and destroyed two of their targets, thereby creating a legend. The one-off operation combined an audacious method of attack, technically brilliant flying and visually spectacular results. But while the story of Operation Chastise is well known, most of the 133 'Dambusters' who took part in the Dams Raid have until now been just names on a list. They came from all parts of the UK and the Commonwealth and beyond, and each of them was someone's son or brother, someone's husband or father. This is the first book to present their individual stories and celebrate their skill, heroism and, for many, sacrifice.
Author : Susan Ottaway
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
ISBN 13 : 9780850525038
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Dambuster written by Susan Ottaway and published by Leo Cooper Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time he was killed in September 1944, after directing a successful raid against the German towns of Rheydt and Munchen-Gladbach, Guy Gibson was one of the most highly decorated RAF officers of the Second World War.
Author : Susan Ottaway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956217608
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Guy Gibson, VC written by Susan Ottaway and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Foster
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 180399214X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Guy Gibson and his Dambuster Crew written by Charles Foster and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dams Raid is the RAF’s most famous bombing operation of the Second World War, and Guy Gibson, who was in command, its most famous bomber pilot. Of the six men who made up his crew — two Canadians, an Australian and three Englishmen – only one had previously flown with him, but altogether they had amassed more than 180 operations. Drawing on rare and unpublished sources and family archives, this new study, written by the author of the acclaimed 2018 title, The Complete Dambusters, is the first book to fully detail their stories. It explores the previous connections between the seven men who would fly on just one operation together and examines how their relationships developed in the few months they spent in each other’s company.
Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : Collins
ISBN 13 : 9780008280529
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Chastise written by Max Hastings and published by Collins. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Möhne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron, was an epic that has passed into Britain's national legend. Max Hastings grew up embracing the story, the classic 1955 movie and the memory of Guy Gibson, the 24-year-old wing-commander who won the VC leading the raid. In the 21st Century, however, Hastings urges that we should review the Dambusters in much more complex shades. The aircrew's heroism was wholly authentic, as was the brilliance of Barnes Wallis, who invented the 'bouncing bombs'. But commanders who promised their young fliers that success could shorten the war fantasised wildly. What Germans call the Möhnekatastrophe imposed on the Nazi war machine temporary disruption, rather than a crippling blow. Hastings vividly describes the evolution of Wallis' bomb, and of the squadron which broke the dams at the cost of devastating losses. But he also portrays in harrowing detail those swept away by the torrents. Some 1,400 civilians perished in the biblical floods that swept through the Möhne valley, more than half of them Russian and Polish women, slave labourers under Hitler. Ironically, Air Marshal Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris gained much of the credit, though he opposed Chastise as a distraction from his city-burning blitz. He also made what the author describes as the operation's biggest mistake - the failure to launch a conventional attack on the Nazis' huge post-raid repair operation, which could have transformed the impact of the dam breaches upon Ruhr industry. Chastise offers a fascinating retake on legend by a master of the art. Hastings sets the dams raid in the big picture of the bomber offensive and of the Second World War, with moving portraits of the young airmen, so many of whom died; of Barnes Wallis; the monstrous Harris; the tragic Guy Gibson, together with superb narrative of the action of one of the most extraordinary episodes in British history.
Author : Guy Gibson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1784384917
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (843 download)
Download or read book Enemy Coast Ahead written by Guy Gibson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive new edition of a classic, World War II memoir, complete with more than 100 photographs, and notes from leading historians. Guy Gibson was the leader of the famous Dambusters raid, and Enemy Coast Ahead is a vivid, honest account, widely regarded as one of the best books on the Second World War. It also provides an insider’s perspective, setting down in clear detail the challenges that the RAF faced in the war against Germany’s Luftwaffe. Tragically, Gibson died in September 1944, when his Mosquito crashed near Steenbergen in the Netherlands. He was aged just 26. This new book has been published to mark the 75th anniversary of his death and includes an introduction by James Holland, a historian and broadcaster. It includes notes by Dr Robert Owen, the Official Historian of the No. 617 Squadron Association, and many images that have never before been published. Published in association with the RAF Museum Inspired the 1955 film The Dam Busters, starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave
Author : Susan OTTAWAY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Dambuster written by Susan OTTAWAY and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Morris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Guy Gibson written by Richard Morris and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: En beretning om Wing-Commander Guy Gibson, lederen af de engelske bombeangreb på dæmninger i Ruhr distriktet under 2. verdenskrig.
Author : Max Hastings
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062953621
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book Operation Chastise written by Max Hastings and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Nonfiction of 2020 -- Kirkus Reviews One of the most lauded historians of our time returns to the Second World War in this magnificent retelling of the awe-inspiring raid on German dams conducted by the Royal Army Force’s 617 Squadron. The attack on Nazi Germany’s dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats in military history. The absurdly young men of the Royal Air Force’s 617 Squadron set forth in cold blood and darkness, without benefit of electronic aids, to fly lumbering heavy bombers straight and level towards a target at a height above the water less than the length of a bowling alley. Yet this story—and the later wartime experience of the 617 Squadron—has never been told in full. Max Hastings takes us back to the May 1943 raid to reveal how the truth of that night is considerably different from the popularized account most people know. The RAF had identified the Ruhr dams as strategic objectives as far back as 1938; in those five years Wing Commander Guy Gibson formed and trained the 617 Squadron. Hastings observes that while the dropping of Wallis’s mines provided the dramatic climax, only two of the eight aircraft lost came down over the dams—the rest were shot down on the flight to, or back from, the mission. And while the 617 Squadron’s valor is indisputable, the ultimate industrial damage caused by the dam raid was actually rather modest. In 1943, these brave men caught the imagination of the world and uplifted the weary spirits of the British people. Their achievement unnerved the Nazi high command, and caused them to expend large resources on dam defenses—making the mission a success. An example of Churchill’s “military theatre” at its best, what 617 Squadron did was an extraordinary and heroic achievement, and a triumph of British ingenuity and technology—a story to be told for generations to come. Operation Chastise includes three 8-page black-and-white photo inserts and 6 maps.
Author : Susan Ottaway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786080257
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Dambuster written by Susan Ottaway and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FEW MEN HAVE A BETTER CLAIM TO BE CALLED A LEGEND IN THEIR OWN LIFETIME THAN GUY GIBSON. Leader of the famous Dambuster Raid of May 1943, which became part of the popular folklore of the Second World War after the film in which Richard Todd took the part of the hero, Gibson himself was tragically in an air crash in 1944. Born in India in 1918 and brought up in England, Guy Gibson joined the RAF in November 1936. Thereafter his career can be seen as a battle between, on the one hand, his uncertain temperament and less than ideal private life, and, on the other, his undoubted skills as an airman and as a leader of men. The war was to bring him adventure and, later, fame. He took part in the first aerial attack of the war, on the Kiel Canal; he served in Fighter Command and then, in 1943, came the famous raid on the Mohne and Eder dams for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. By now a hero of international fame, he was sent on a Public Relations tour of North America, but he was above all a flyer and, refusing to remain grounded, he died an airman's death. This new edition, which draws on conversations with members of Gibson's family and on notes made by his widow, expands upon his early life in a severely dysfunctional family, his unhappy marriage and the possible reason for his untimely death in September 1944.
Author : Jan van den Driesschen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781852970840
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (78 download)
Download or read book We Will Remember Them written by Jan van den Driesschen and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Ottaway
Publisher : Pen & Sword
ISBN 13 : 9781844156054
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Dambuster written by Susan Ottaway and published by Pen & Sword. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in India 1918 and brought up in England, Guy Gibson joined the RAF in November 1936. Thereafter his career can be seen as a battle between his uncertain temperament and less than ideal private life, and his undoubted skills as an airman and as a leader of men. This is his story.
Author : John Sweetman
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
ISBN 13 : 9780316726184
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The Dambusters written by John Sweetman and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 2003 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dambusters' mission is of enduring fascination and appeal. The breaching of the dams in Germany's industrial heartland was to have a pivotal effect on the outcome of World War II. This book, accompanying a TV series of the same name, reveals the scientist behind the 'bouncing bomb' and re-enacts the mission.
Author : Guy Gibson
Publisher : Bomber crews
ISBN 13 : 9780907579625
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (796 download)
Download or read book Enemy Coast Ahead written by Guy Gibson and published by Bomber crews. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Tom Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (816 download)
Download or read book 617 Squadron: the Dambusters at War written by Tom Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
