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JOHN NICHOL & TONY RENNELL Tail End Charlies. The Last Battles of the Bomber War. 1944-45
London England, Viking, 2004. First Edition, Binding: Cloth, Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0670914568 Harback Hardback. Price clipped to D/J. Night after night they stifled their fears and flew through flak and packs of enemy fighters to drop the bombs that could demolish the Third Reich. The airmen of the RAF's Bomber Command were among the greatest heroes of the Second World War, defyling Hitler in the darkest early days of the war and taking the battle to the German homeland when no one else would. At the tail-end of the conflict, too, they continued to sacrifice their lives to shatter an enemy sworn never to surrender. Blasted out of sky in an instant or baling out from burning aircraft to drop helplessly into hostile hands, they would die in their tens of thousands to ensure the enemy's defeat. But, once the war was won, their own nation turned against the, The Allied arimen who devastated Cologne, Hamburg, Berlin and Dresden were treated as pariahs - and their commander, Sir Arthur Harris, labelled a war criminal. Illustrated. 470 pp. ( We carry a wide selection of titles in sci fi fantasy and horror, The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) .
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