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    Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940–1945
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    Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940–1945

    By Patrick Bishop

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    Patrick Bishop looks at the lives and the extraordinary risks that the painfully young pilots of Bomber Command took during the air-offensive against Germany from 1940-1945. As featured on the BBC 1 documentary BOMBER BOYS, presented by Ewan McGregor.

    They came from every corner of Britain and its Empire. They were the best of their generation…heading for one of the worst tasks of the WWII.

    Like RAF pilots, the thousands of brave young men who joined Bomber Command took to the air to help Britain triumph in World War Two. But in the glow of victory, the fighter pilots were lauded for their efforts while the Bomber Boys faded in national memory. Crucial in the heat of combat, they were politically awkward afterwards.

    Yet with an average life expectancy shorter than that of soldiers on the Western front in WWI, these men faced death, injury and capture time and again to send bombs through the shrieking flak onto enemy territory. ‘Bomber Boys’ is a tribute to their strength, courage and heroism – filling in the historical blanks and immortalising their memory.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateDec 8, 2011
    ISBN9780007280131
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    Bomber Boys: Fighting Back 1940–1945
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    Patrick Bishop

    Patrick Bishop has been a foreign correspondent for over twenty years, reporting from conflicts all over the world and working as senior correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. He is the author of ‘The Irish Empire’; the acclaimed book ‘The Provisional IRA’ with Eamonn Mallie; and the bestselling ‘Fighter Boys’, ‘Bomber Boys’ and ‘3 Para’. He lives in London.

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      Well written and beautifully told, the story of the men, and a few women, of Bomber Command in World War Two. This is a book firmly on the side of the airmen and is thus a refreshing take in this day and age. Focussing on the day to day lives of the airmen, rather than the battle details or the commanders, this book gives the reader a real sense of who these men were who volunteered for a fight many of them would never return from. Regardless of your position on the Allied bombing raids, this is a book that is well worth reading.