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Hastings, Max.
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Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 617 -- History.
Operation Chastise, 1943.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.
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Hastings, Max.
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 617 -- History.
Operation Chastise, 1943.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.
MARC Display
Chastise
: the
Dambusters
story
,
1943
/ Max Hastings.
by
Hastings, Max.
William Collins, 2019.
Call #:
940.544941 H358c
Subjects
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 617 -- History.
Operation
Chastise
,
1943
.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British.
ISBN:
9780008280529
9780008280536
Description:
xxxv, 364 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-350) and index.
Contents:
List of illustrations -- RAF ranks and army equivalents -- Abbreviations used in the text -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Grand strategy, great dams -- The boffin and his bombs -- Command and controversy -- Men and machines -- The brink of battle --
Chastise
-- At the Dams -- The Möhnekatastrophe -- Heroes -- Landings.
Summary:
A brand new history of the
Dambusters
raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian, Max Hastings. Operation
Chastise
, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron on the night of 16/17 May
1943
, was an epic that has passed into Britain's national legend.Max Hastings grew up embracing the
story
, the classic 1955 movie and the memory of Guy Gibson, the 24-year-old wing-commander who led the raid. In the 21st Century, however, he urges that we should see the
dambusters
in much more complex shades. The aircrew's heroism was entirely real, as was the brilliance of Barnes Wallis, inventor of the 'bouncing bombs'. But commanders who promised their young fliers that success could shorten the war fantasised as ruthlessly as they did about the entire bomber offensive. Some 1,400 civilians perished in the biblical floods that swept through the Mohne valley, more than half of them Russian and Polish women, slave labourers.Hastings vividly describes the evolution of Wallis' bomb, and of the squadron which broke the dams. But he also portrays in harrowing detail those swept away by the torrents. He argues that what modern Germans call the Mohnekatastrophe imposed on the Nazi war machine temporary disruption, rather than a crippling blow. Ironically, Air Marshal Sir Arthur 'Bomber' Harris gained much of the public credit, though he bitterly opposed
Chastise
as a distraction from his city-burning blitz. Harris also made perhaps the operation's biggest mistake - failure to launch a conventional attack on the huge post-raid repair operation which could have transformed the impact of the dam breaches on Ruhr industry.Here once again is a dramatic retake on familiar history by a master of the art. Hastings sets the Dams Raid in the big picture of the bomber offensive and of the Second World War, with moving portraits of the young airmen, so many of whom died; of Barnes Wallis; the monstrous Harris; the tragic Guy Gibson, together with superb narrative of the action of one of the most extraordinary episodes in British history.
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