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LANCASTER: THE FORGING OF A VERY BRITISH LEGEND

by John Nichol

Published by Simon & Schuster Uk Ltd. 1st. 2020

Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. This book tells the story of the Lancaster bomber used by bomber command in WW2. Brought into service late 1941, it superseded the Manchester bomber which had not lived up to expectations. The Lancaster bomber went on to be the dominant aircraft used by bomber command. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Colour pictorial endpapers. xiii and 448 pages.

SIGNED by the author to front endpaper (no dedication). Boards clean. Top & tail of spine lightly shelf-worn. Contents clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly rubbed and worn at corners, light visible circular mark where a label was.

ISBN: 9781471180460
Stock no. 1831050

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Contents

  • Acknowledgements
  • Foreword
  • ONE 'Just Another Day in Bomber Command'
  • TWO The Coming War
  • THREE 'Keep it Simple': The Birth of a Warhorse
  • FOUR 'A Bad Way to Spend an Afternoon'
  • FIVE Joining Up Together, Training Together, Dying Together
  • SIX 'Strike and Return'
  • SEVEN 'It Won't Be Long Until I See You Again'
  • EIGHT Towards the Big City
  • NINE The War on the Ground
  • TEN Pilots of The Caribbean
  • ELEVEN 'For Christ's Sake, Do Something, or We're All Going to Die'
  • TWELVE Face to Face with the Enemy
  • THIRTEEN 'I Needed to Kill Him Before He Could Kill Me and My Crew'
  • FOURTEEN Saved by the Bell
  • FIFTEEN 'The Best Raid of the War!'
  • SIXTEN Looking Back
  • Afterword
  • Endnotes
  • Bibliography
  • Picture Credits
  • Index

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