Written from the unusual perspective of a navigator, this is a compelling account of the air war against Germany. --George Hicks, director of the Airmen Memorial Museum.
This has to be the best memoir I have read, bar none. . . -- Library Journal The acrid stench of fear and cordite, the coal burning stoves, the heroics, the losses .
An evocative and excellent memoir. -- Kirkus Reviews Re-creates for us the sense of how it was when European skies were filled with noise and danger, when the fate of millions hung in the balance.
Uncommonly thoughtful recollections that address the moral ambiguities of a great cause without in any way denigrating the selfless valor or camaraderie that helped ennoble it. . .
A vivid account . . .
Affecting .
Now, in a breathtaking and often humorous account, he takes us into the hearts and minds of these intrepid airmen to experience both the triumph and the white-knuckle terror of the war in the skies.
After dealing with his fear and gaining in skill and confidence, he was promoted to Group Navigator, surviving hairbreadth escapes and eluding death while leading thirty-seven missions, some of them involving two thousand aircraft.
Crosby--soon to be portrayed by Anthony Boyle in the miniseries Masters of the Air developed by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg--arrived with the very first crews, and left with the very last.
Harry H.
Their astonishing courage and appalling losses earned them the name that resounds in the annals of aerial warfare and made the Bloody Hundredth a legend.
They flew their Flying Fortresses almost daily against strategic targets in Europe in the name of freedom. -- Publishers Weekly They began operations out of England in the spring of \'43.
Written from the unusual perspective of a navigator, this is a compelling account of the air war against Germany
