Lancaster
The Forging of a Very British Legend
$23.45
- Paperback
464 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2021
Summary
The Avro Lancaster is an aviation icon; revered, romanticised, loved. Without her, and the bravery of those who flew her, the freedom we enjoy today would not exist.
Sir Arthur Harris, the controversial chief of Royal Air Force Bomber Command, described the Lancaster as his ‘shining sword’ and the ‘greatest single factor in winning the war’. RAF bomber squadrons carried out offensive operations from the first day of the Second World War until the very last, more than five and a half y…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781471180491 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1471180492 |
| Author: | John Nichol |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Imprint: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2021 |
| Weight: | 340g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 29mm |
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About The Author
John Nichol
John Nichol served in the Royal Air Force for fifteen years. On active duty during the first Gulf War in 1991, his Tornado bomber was shot down during a mission over Iraq. Captured, tortured and held as a prisoner of war, John was paraded on television, provoking worldwide condemnation and leaving one of the most enduring images of the conflict.
John is the bestselling co-author of Tornado Down and author of many highly acclaimed Second World War epics including Spitfire and Lancaster, both of which were Sunday Times bestsellers. He has made a number of TV documentaries with Second World War veterans, written for national newspapers and magazines, and is a widely quoted commentator on military affairs.
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