Enemy Coast Ahead - Uncensored: The Real Guy Gibson

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Note on 2nd Printing: This edition will be identical to the 1st Printing except that any known errata will be corrected.

A feature of Gibson's book which is so often overlooked is the 'Battle of the Barges' - Bomber Command's contribution to the Battle of Britain.The concussion would crack the structure, and the water’s mass held back by the dam would push open the crack, creating a breach in the wall. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. Probably one of the greatest features of the narrative is its complete lack of any hindsight on the events of the war.

There is a table at the start of the book referencing those pilots lost whilst he served with individual squadrons, sobering reading when he mentions a particular colleague in the text, you refer to the table and realise he subsequently died. They all attended an investiture at Buckingham Palace ( June 22nd ), performed by the Queen Elizabeth ( the futur Queen Mother, 1900 - 2002 ). top-turret and armor were removed to compensate for the weight of the bouncing bomb (yes, those bombers were sitting ducks for Nightfighters).This new book has been published to mark the 75th anniversary of his death and includes an introduction by James Holland, a historian and broadcaster; notes by Dr Robert Owen, the Official Historian of the No. It is often easy to look at your own history through rose-tinted spectacles and ignore the negatives. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.