LANCASTER DOWN ! Delai:3 semaines GRU230

Over 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives in World War Two. On one raid alone, Nuremburg in March 1944, more airmen lost their lives than were lost in the Battle of Britain. The men of Bomber Command were fighting against staggering odds.

The grandfather of the author, Arthur Darlow, was a pilot of just one Lancaster crew in 405 RCAF Sqn, made up of British and Canadians. The story of this crew from 1942 on, vividly recreated by Steve Darlow, is so special because collectively the crew experienced everything possible. Operational life, dangerous flights, the crash, help from the Belgian resistance, imprisonment, death.

This is an extraordinary book about ordinary men. Not romanticised, but related as it happened and written with respect to stand as a fitting testament to the courage of these seven young airmen and countless crews like them. A book to be read by all age groups.