Description
Product ID: | 9780552163415 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Dam Busters |
Subtitle: | The Race to Smash the Dams, 1943 |
Authors: | Author: James Holland |
Page Count: | 576 |
Subjects: | General and world history, General & world history, Second World War, Second World War |
Description: | Select Guide Rating The night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the industries supplying the Third Reich's war machine. The night of May 16th, 1943. Nineteen specially adapted Lancaster bombers take off from RAF Scampton in Lincolnshire, each with a huge 9,000lb cylindrical bomb strapped underneath it. Their mission: to destroy three dams deep within the German heartland, which provide the lifeblood to the industries supplying the Third Reich''s war machine. |
Imprint Name: | Corgi Books |
Publisher Name: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2013-05-09 |