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Lancaster Men

Lancaster Men

The Aussie heroes of Bomber Command

by Peter Rees
Age range: + years old Publication Date: 25/03/2013

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More than 10,000 Australians served with Bomber Command, a highly trained band of elite flyers who undertook some of the most dangerous operations of World War II. They flew raid after raid over France and Germany knowing that the odds were against them. Stretched to breaking point, nearly 3500 died in the air. Their bravery in extreme circumstances has barely been recognised.Peter Rees traces the extraordinary achievements of these young aviators. He tells their hair-raising stories of battle action and life on the ground. And he recounts how, when they returned to Australia, they were greeted as Jap dodgers and accused of 'hiding in England while we were doing it tough'.Exciting, compelling and full of life, Lancaster Men is a powerful tribute to these forgotten Australian heroes of World War II.
ISBN:
9781741752076
9781741752076
Category:
Second World War
Age range:
+ years old
Publication Date:
25-03-2013
Language:
English
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
448
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x34mm
Weight:
0.62kg
Peter Rees

Peter Rees has been a journalist for forty years, working as federal political correspondent for the Melbourne Sun, the West Australian and the Sunday Telegraph.

He is the author of The Boy from Boree Creek: The Tim Fischer Story (2001), Tim Fischer's Outback Heroes (2002), and Killing Juanita (2004), which was a winner of the 2004 Ned Kelly Award for Australian crime writing, as well as Desert Boys, Lancaster Men: The Aussie heroes of Bomber Command (2013), The Anzac Girls (2014) and Bearing Witness (2015).

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