Dam busters : the true story of the inventors and airmen who led the devastating raid to smash the German dams in 1943 /
An account of the daring May 1943 mission to destroy three heavily defended German dams documents the ten-week race to create the necessary weapons and orchestrate a bombing raid that nearly cost the lives of its pilots.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Atlantic Monthly Press,
[2013]
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| Summary: | An account of the daring May 1943 mission to destroy three heavily defended German dams documents the ten-week race to create the necessary weapons and orchestrate a bombing raid that nearly cost the lives of its pilots. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Great Britain : Bantam Press, 2012, with the subtitle The race to smash the dams, 1943. |
| Physical Description: | xix, 437 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780802121691 (hbk.) 0802121691 (hbk.) |