Dam busters : the true story of the inventors and airmen who led the devastating raid to smash the German dams in 1943 /
Holland, James, 1970-
Dam busters : the true story of the inventors and airmen who led the devastating raid to smash the German dams in 1943 / Dambusters : the true story of the inventors and airmen who led the devastating raid to smash the German dams in 1943 James Holland. - New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2013] - xix, 437 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Originally published: Great Britain : Bantam Press, 2012, with the subtitle The race to smash the dams, 1943.
Includes filmography (p. 420), bibliographical references (p. [415]-420) and index.
An account of the daring May 1943 mission to destroy three heavily defended German dams documents the ten-week race to create the necessary weapons and orchestrate a bombing raid that nearly cost the lives of its pilots.
0802121691 (hbk.) 9780802121691 (hbk.)
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 617 --History.
Dams--History--Germany--Ruhr (Region)--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Germany--Ruhr (Region).
Ruhr (Germany : Region)--History.
Dam busters : the true story of the inventors and airmen who led the devastating raid to smash the German dams in 1943 / Dambusters : the true story of the inventors and airmen who led the devastating raid to smash the German dams in 1943 James Holland. - New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2013] - xix, 437 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 24 cm.
Originally published: Great Britain : Bantam Press, 2012, with the subtitle The race to smash the dams, 1943.
Includes filmography (p. 420), bibliographical references (p. [415]-420) and index.
An account of the daring May 1943 mission to destroy three heavily defended German dams documents the ten-week race to create the necessary weapons and orchestrate a bombing raid that nearly cost the lives of its pilots.
0802121691 (hbk.) 9780802121691 (hbk.)
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 617 --History.
Dams--History--Germany--Ruhr (Region)--20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Destruction and pillage--Germany--Ruhr (Region).
Ruhr (Germany : Region)--History.