Book description
A unique glimpse of the deadliest profession of the Second World War.
In June 1941, Flight Sergeant Leslie Mann, a tail gunner in a British bomber, was shot down over Du?sseldorf and taken into captivity. After the war, wanting to record the experiences of the RAF's 'Bomber Boys', he gave…
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1 author picked And Some Fell on Stony Ground as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Like First Light, the classic Battle of Britain memoir by Geoffrey Wellum, And Some Fell on Stony Ground provides a vivid and sometimes terrifying portrait of life as an RAF pilot during World War II.
Unlike Wellum, however, the author of this short, fictionalised memoir wasn’t a fighter pilot. He was, instead, a member of Bomber Command, whose crews endured the nightmare of recurrent nocturnal flights over Nazi Germany, where they dodged searchlights, anti-aircraft fire, and lurking German night fighters.
Read Leslie Mann’s posthumously published book, and you’ll feel you were there with him.
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