Bomber Crew Morale in WW2
how bomber command’s airmen faced terrible odds in the second world war
$65.05
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
30 September 2025
Summary
Against All Odds: Morale in RAF Bomber Command During WWII
During the Second World War, RAF Bomber Command saw 125,000 aircrew serve, with a staggering 55,573 killed - roughly 44% of those who joined. Despite these grim statistics, aircrews continued to fly night after night, facing almost certain death. How did they maintain morale in such perilous circumstances?
RAF High Command understood the importance of morale but struggled to define it. Their strategies focused on dis…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781036131449 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1036131440 |
| Author: | Peter Croft |
| Publisher: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Pen & Sword Books Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 30 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Peter Croft
PETER CROFT was born in Edinburgh in 1947 and grew up in Felixstowe, Suffolk. After leaving Felixstowe Grammar School he became a Clerical Officer in the Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance. On leaving the Civil Service he had a spell driving buses for Ipswich Borough Transport. He then took a course in American Studies at the University of Manchester in 1978 and gained a B.A. (Hons) Degree. He took up the Teaching of English as a Foreign Language, firstly in Cambridge, then working in Italy, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. He took a break from teaching in 1999 to begin research on morale in R.A.F. Bomber Command for an M.Sc. in Second World War Studies at the University of Edinburgh. In 2000, after gaining his degree, he resumed teaching, taking up posts in Qatar, Libya, Angola and Iraq. In 2013 he retired to the city of his birth, where he still lives.
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