Book description
In early June 1943, James Eric Swift, a pilot with the 83rd Squadron of the Royal Air Force, boarded his Lancaster bomber for a night raid on Münster and disappeared.
Widespread aerial bombardment was to the Second World War what the trenches were to the First: a shocking and new…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Bomber County as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Having lost my fighter pilot father, this book resonated with me in a special way. A moving tribute to the author's grandfather he never knew, it is a poetic tribute to all the fliers lost in WW2, much in the way that the trenches were the source of poetry in WW1.
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