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Author: Kevin Wilson
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Dimensions:
Width: 13.00cm
, Height: 3.40cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.380kg
ISBN: 9780753828588
ISBN 10: 0753828588
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 23 June 2011
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
This final part of a fine trilogy restores the young airmen to their rightful place in history . . . Wilson gives a brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground. Guardian
This final part of a fine trilogy restores the young airmen to their rightful place in history . . . Wilson gives a brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground. Guardian Despite their enormous courage and huge sacrifice, Britain has never formally acknowledged the bravery of the men who fought through the Second World War in Bomber Command. The men's valour was betrayed by politicians and they have been denied a medal honouring their campaign--SUNDAY EXPRESS A brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground, and considers why a force that took the war into the heart of Germany on a nightly basis was ignored when the fighting stopped ... a long way to answering why there will be a memorial to these brave airmen in a London park--OBSERVER
A brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground, and considers why a force that took the war into the heart of Germany on a nightly basis was ignored when the fighting stopped ... a long way to answering why there will be a memorial to these brave airmen in a London park * Observer * Despite their enormous courage and huge sacrifice, Britain has never formally acknowledged the bravery of the men who fought through the Second World War in Bomber Command. The men's valour was betrayed by politicians and they have been denied a medal honouring their campaign * Sunday Express * A sobering, deeply moving and historically fascinating account ... Kevin Wilson has brought some striking new research to bear in this brilliant work ... As is made painfully clear through anecdotes, many veterans of Bomber Command are left with terrible memories of what they endured in the struggle for national survival Masterly approach ... it makes fascinating reading and will be of huge interest to all who remember the dying days of the last war * Church of England Newspaper *
This final part of a fine trilogy restores the young airmen to their rightful place in history . . . Wilson gives a brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground. -- Guardian
Author Information
Kevin Wilson has spent most of his working life as a staff journalist on British national newspapers, including the Daily Mail and latterly the Daily and Sunday Express. He is married with three grown-up sons and a daughter.
