James Holland

Broschiertes Buch

Dam Busters

The Race to Smash the Dams, 1943

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

James Holland is an internationally acclaimed and award-winning historian, writer, and broadcaster. The author of a number of best-selling histories including most recently The Savage Storm and Cassino '44, he is also the author of ten works of fiction and a dozen Ladybird Experts. He is the co-founder of the annual Chalke Valley History Festival which is now in its twelfth year, and he has presented - and written - many television programmes and series for the BBC, Channel 4, National Geographic and the History and Discovery channels. With Al Murray, he has a successful Second World War podcast, We Have Ways of Making You Talk, which also has its own festival, and is a research fellow at St Andrew's University and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He can be found on Twitter as @James1940 and on Instagram as @jamesholland1940.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Corgi / Random House UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 646534
• Seitenzahl: 576
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 478g
• ISBN-13: 9780552163415
• ISBN-10: 0552163414
• Artikelnr.: 36553142

Rezensionen

In his previous books... Holland combined a lively style with fresh insights based on deep historical research. Those qualities shine through this new account Literary Review