Bomb Run eBook Spencer Dunmore
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A bomb run over Berlin in 1944, the thirtieth and final mission for one British Bomber Command aircrew. For them, World War II is virtually over. They will take off tonight, make a last passage through the barrage of flak and flame, take a last gamble against the Messerschmitts, and return to England and relative peace. The pilot of the Lancaster bomber, Wally Mann, Paul Taylor the navigator, Douglas, Harry, Phil, Charlie, Len — the other members of the crew — dream of life and love and each fights his fear as the bomber lifts off in the night for the run over Berlin. But across the Channel, a young German fighter pilot, grieving for his dead parents and thinking of the combat to come, is destined to alter forever the lives of the British bomber crew.
One of the most exciting first novels to appear in years, Bomb Run has been described as "a military The High and the Mighty." Certainly one of the finest novels ever written about flying, it is one of the most exciting reading experiences in any genre.
About the author Spencer Dunmore was a schoolboy in Yorkshire, England during World War II and watched bombers limping home to the RAF airfields there. His imagination was fired by this experience to the extent that he became an expert on the war in the air, 1939-1945, and his accounts of the bombers and fighters involved are renowned for their accuracy. Dunmore left Britain for Canada in the mid-50s where he was an advertising executive for many years. Dunmore is now a full-time writer and a private pilot on weekends and resides in Ontario.
Bomb Run eBook Spencer Dunmore
A fictionalized account of a bombing mission to Berlin by a British Lancaster bomber and crew. Several devices are used to increase the drama: It's the crew's last mission of their tour. The pilot has been having visions of his impending death. The German night fighter pilot who attacks them has just learned of the death of his parents from bombs. The crew members are wrestling with various ethical and moral questions about their mission and their personal behavior during wartime, away from their homes. The story is suspenseful, almost exhaustingly so. It doesn't telegraph how things are going to come out at the end.There are a few British expressions that are strange to Americans. (One can finally extrapolate that an "erk" is a member of the ground support crew.) I gave it only four stars because the OCR wasn't really well done. Don't they use proofreaders at all? You have to get accustomed to seeing, many times, a numeral "1" used when it should be "I." Also I thought some of the internal thoughts of the crewmen went on a bit long, and I got tired of the tension. It finally seemed like a fable; no airplane could do that. Even though I have seen film of a B-17 bomber that made it home with only a few stringers holding the tail onto the front of the fuselage, after being hit in the waist by a Smetterling rocket; and another that made it home with half the horizontal stabilizer broken off by the weight of a bomb falling on it from another plane in the group.
I learned some interesting things about the Lancaster. For instance, there was only one pilot aboard; and it had liquid-cooled in-line engines instead of the air-cooled radials used in the B-17.
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Bomb Run eBook Spencer Dunmore Reviews
I found this long out-of-print World War II paperback recently. Story concerns a British bomber crew on its last bombing run of Berlin. The crew encounters a German Messerschmidt and get into a cat and mouse game while trying to get back to England. Short novel with loads of aerial action but wooden characterizations. Still an enjoyable read especially while viewing Twelve O'Clock High at the same time.
Gripping well written story of RAF in WW2
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. However the only problem with it is that there was lots of British flying and military jargon with no translation or definition which I was unable to understand.
A fictionalized account of a bombing mission to Berlin by a British Lancaster bomber and crew. Several devices are used to increase the drama It's the crew's last mission of their tour. The pilot has been having visions of his impending death. The German night fighter pilot who attacks them has just learned of the death of his parents from bombs. The crew members are wrestling with various ethical and moral questions about their mission and their personal behavior during wartime, away from their homes. The story is suspenseful, almost exhaustingly so. It doesn't telegraph how things are going to come out at the end.
There are a few British expressions that are strange to Americans. (One can finally extrapolate that an "erk" is a member of the ground support crew.) I gave it only four stars because the OCR wasn't really well done. Don't they use proofreaders at all? You have to get accustomed to seeing, many times, a numeral "1" used when it should be "I." Also I thought some of the internal thoughts of the crewmen went on a bit long, and I got tired of the tension. It finally seemed like a fable; no airplane could do that. Even though I have seen film of a B-17 bomber that made it home with only a few stringers holding the tail onto the front of the fuselage, after being hit in the waist by a Smetterling rocket; and another that made it home with half the horizontal stabilizer broken off by the weight of a bomb falling on it from another plane in the group.
I learned some interesting things about the Lancaster. For instance, there was only one pilot aboard; and it had liquid-cooled in-line engines instead of the air-cooled radials used in the B-17.
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