James Holland

Dam Busters

The Race to Smash the Dams, 1943

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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

Autorenporträt

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 Brothers In Arms and Normandy '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.

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