Dam Busters
The True Story of the Inventors and Airmen Who Led the Devastating Raid to Smash the German Dams in 1943
New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [2013]
Format: Book
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.
Subjects:
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 617 -- History.
Dams -- Germany -- Ruhr (Region) -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany -- Ruhr (Region)
Ruhr (Germany : Region) -- History.
Great Britain. Royal Air Force. Squadron, 617 -- History.
Dams -- Germany -- Ruhr (Region) -- History -- 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Destruction and pillage -- Germany -- Ruhr (Region)
Ruhr (Germany : Region) -- History.
ISBN:
9780802121691 (hbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY War WWII Campaigns Hol | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |
Originally published: Great Britain : Bantam Press, 2012, with the subtitle The race to smash the dams, 1943.