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ISBN10: 006295363X, ISBN13: 9780062953636, [publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Best Nonfiction of 2020 -- Kirkus ReviewsOne of the most lauded historians of our time returns to the Second World War in this magnificent retelling of the awe-inspiring raid on German dams conducted by the Royal Army Force's 617 Squadron.The attack on Nazi Germany's dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats in military history. The absurdly young men of the Royal Air Force's 617 Squadron set forth in cold blood and darkness, without benefit of electronic aids, to fly lumbering heavy bombers straight and level towards a target at a height above the water less than the length of a bowling alley. Yet this story--and the later wartime experience of the 617 Squadron--has never been told in full. Max Hastings takes us back to the May 1943 raid to reveal how the truth of that night is considerably different from the popularized account most people know. The RAF had identified the Ruhr dams as strategic objectives as far back as 1938; in those five years Wing Commander Guy Gibson formed and trained the 617 Squadron. Hastings observes that while the dropping of Wallis's mines provided the dramatic climax, only two of the eight aircraft lost came down over the dams--the rest were shot down on the flight to, or back from, the mission. And while the 617 Squadron's valor is indisputable, the ultimate industrial damage ...
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ISBN10: 006295363X, ISBN13: 9780062953636, [publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Best Nonfiction of 2020 -- Kirkus ReviewsOne of the most lauded historians of our time returns to the Second World War in this magnificent retelling of the awe-inspiring raid on German dams conducted by the Royal Army Force's 617 Squadron.The attack on Nazi Germany's dams on May 17, 1943, was one of the most remarkable feats in military history. The absurdly young men of the Royal Air Force's 617 Squadron set forth in cold blood and darkness, without benefit of electronic aids, to fly lumbering heavy bombers straight and level towards a target at a height above the water less than the length of a bowling alley. Yet this story--and the later wartime experience of the 617 Squadron--has never been told in full. Max Hastings takes us back to the May 1943 raid to reveal how the truth of that night is considerably different from the popularized account most people know. The RAF had identified the Ruhr dams as strategic objectives as far back as 1938; in those five years Wing Commander Guy Gibson formed and trained the 617 Squadron. Hastings observes that while the dropping of Wallis's mines provided the dramatic climax, only two of the eight aircraft lost came down over the dams--the rest were shot down on the flight to, or back from, the mission. And while the 617 Squadron's valor is indisputable, the ultimate industrial damage ...
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ISBN10: 006295363X, ISBN13: 9780062953636, [publisher: Harper and Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, (2020), New York:] Hardcover First Edition First Printing Fine in black paper covered boards with bold white text stamped on the spine. An octavo of 9 by 6 inches. In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 364 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with three sections of images from black and white photographs. The story of the RAF's successful bombing of three of Germany's largest dams to disrupt and possibly stop the German war efforts.
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Operation Chastise: The RAF's Most Brilliant Attack of World War II by Max HastingsTHERE IS A BLACK "CLOSEOUT/REMAINDER" MARK ON THE TOP PAGE EDGES.Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in northwest Germany by Britain's Royal Air Force 617 Squadron, was an epic wartime maneuver that has become military legend.Max Hastings grew up embracing the story, the classic 1944 movie, and the memory of Guy Gibson, the twenty-four-year-old wing commander who led the raid. In the twenty-first century, however, Hastings urges that we should review the Dambusters in much more complex shades. The aircrew's heroism was wholly authentic, as was the brilliance of Barnes Wallis, the man who invented the "bouncing bombs" the crew used to great success. But commanders who promised their young fliers that a victory at the dams could shorten the war were living a fantasy. The raid, what Germans call the Mohnekatastrophe, imposed only a temporary disruption on the Nazi war machine rather than a crippling blow.In Operation Chastise, Hastings vividly describes the evolution of Wallis's bomb and of the squadron that broke the dams at the cost of devastating losses. But he also portrays in harrowing detail those swept away by the torrents. 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 laborers under Hitler.Ironically, Air Marshal Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris gained much of ...

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