Author: Hastings, Max,
Title: CHASTISE - THE DAMBUSTERS STORY 1943.
Description: William Collins, London, 2019, 1st edn., 364 pp. 24pp.half tone photo ills,, double page plan of outward and return routes, in text plans of flight path to Mohne and Eder dams, plazn of flood damage from Mohne dam, facsimile extracts from Gibson's flying log at endpapers, black cloth lettered in silver at spine, decorative head and tail bands, photo montage dustwrapper, a re-assessment of the effectiveness of the famous 'Dams' raid of May 1943, with details of Gibson'd style of command, of loss of life of mainly Polish and Russian women slave labourers in the subsequent flood, and the missedd opportunity for maximising the damage by failing to attack the repairs, lightly rubbed at tips, dustwrapper: lightly rubbed at tips, near fine in a near fine dustwrapper,

Keywords: war ww2 raf lancaster operation chastise barnes wallis guy gibson 617 squadron scampton ruhr dams mohne eder sorpe ennepe lister diemel bouncing skimming bomb


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