TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holland,James
TI  - Dam busters: the true story of the inventors and airmen who led the devastating raid to smash the German dams in 1943 
SN  - 0802121691 (hbk.)
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Atlantic Monthly Press
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Royal Air Force
KW  - Squadron, 617
KW  - History
KW  - Dams
KW  - Germany
KW  - Ruhr (Region)
KW  - 20th century
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Destruction and pillage
KW  - Ruhr (Germany : Region)
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
ER  -