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Dam Busters

Dam Busters

The Race to Smash the Dams, 1943

by James Holland
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/07/2013

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The dramatic retelling of one of the most daring, extraordinary and outrageous raids of WW2 by one of the UK's most talented young historians

The night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission- to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the industries supplying the Third Reich's war machine.

From the outset it was an almost impossible task, a suicide mission- to fly low and at night in formationover many miles of enemy-occupied territory at the very limit of the Lancasters' capacity, and drop a new weapon that had never been tried operationally before from a precise height of just sixty feet from the water at some of the most heavily defended targets in Germany.

More than that, the entire operation had to be put together in less than ten weeks. When visionary aviation engineer Barnes Wallis's concept of the bouncing bomb was green lighted, he hadn't even drawn up his plans for the weapon that was to smash the dams. What followed was an incredible race against time, which, despite numerous setbacks and against huge odds, became one of the most successful and game-changing bombing raids of all time.
ISBN:
9780552163415
9780552163415
Category:
Second World War
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-07-2013
Publisher:
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
576
Dimensions (mm):
198x127x35mm
Weight:
0.41kg
James Holland

James Holland is an historian, writer and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including Battle of Britain and Dam Busters.

He has presented - and written - a large number of television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic, History and Discovery.

He is co-founder of the Chalke Valley History Festival and co-founder of WarGen.org, an online Second World War resource site, and presents the Chalke Valley History Hit podcast.

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