Bomber

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Bomber is a thrilling, action-packed and ultimately poignant story that will stay in the listener’s imagination for a long time to come. These varied from historical fiction ( Bomber, perhaps his greatest novel) to dystopian alternative fiction ( SS-GB) and a number of brilliant non-fiction books on the Second World War ( Fighter, Blitzkrieg and Blood, Tears and Folly). There are no winners here, and I defy any reader to make their way through this and not feel absolutely gutted by the end.

A couple of weeks ago, I was inspired by an article about the novels of Len Deighton to seek out some of his books. They include the village which will suffer extermination by phosphorus and high explosive, a German anti-aircraft battery, a British RAF officers’ mess, and the Lancaster bombers themselves on their mission.Oberleutnant August Bach commands a Freya radar unit on the Dutch coastline that tracks British bomber streams on their night-time raids against Germany. To hammer home this point, the raid takes place on June 31, a date that Deighton cheekily reminds us, never occurred “in 1943 or any other year.

Book, Pages age toning , jacket edges insect nibbled, with rear flap almost detached, now in a new protective sleeve holding it all in position.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original letterbox red paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, photographic end papers. That morning the one still-airworthy Lancaster dropped the corresponding number of red poppies on the rain-soaked capital, wholly mystifying litter to most Londoners.

He is as well up on the machineries and tactics of the German night-fighters – with whom, at times, his sympathies seem to lie. There is probably a mix of shame and the feeling everything is just too random to make a story seem meaningful. The independent-minded quarterly magazine that combines good looks, good writing and a personal approach. The stonework continued to expand until, with an earth-shaking roar, it released the roof upon the burning interior.Tellingly Winston Churchill – whose executive decision the British bombing campaign was – blanks it out in his history of the Second World War (for which he received the Nobel Prize for Literature – there being no Prize awarded for war). Lacking night-vision goggles the crews had to release their bombs guided by flares dropped by scout planes. When the air raid alarms go off in the ficticious German town to the inevitable,terrifying end, mistakes and all, you know you're reading from a master. Deighton employs fiction to bring home the reality of the British bomber offensive against Germany in WWII. Today, of course, we can hit power plants and weapons factories and ammunition depots with precision.

What makes Deighton unique, though, is his being a single voice in describing both sides of the story.At present living in Europe, he has, over the years, lived with his family in ten different countries from Austria to Portugal. A book that you develop an emotional chord for as you read it--perhaps this is why it is hard to let these works go into cardboard boxes and out on a curb.