HELL ON EARTH
Dramatic First-Hand Experiences on Bomber Command at War
Mel Rolfe
Publication: April 2006
Price: £9.99 paperback
Size: 234 x 156mm
Pages: 192 including 32pp b/w photos
ISBN 1 902304 95 0
On a dark desperate night in June 1943 a stricken Halifax bomber limped low over Holland and crashed in a small meadow. The aircraft itself was entirely wrecked, but its crew, amazingly, all stepped out alive and completely unhurt – just one of the twenty new and true stories of bravery, survival and luck, good and bad, contained in this book.
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‘A good, tense reporting job…the author allows these veterans to tell the key elements of their stories mainly in their own words yet still brings out the excitement and terror of their recollections.’
Journal of Aircrew Association
‘A very good read going a long way to helping understand what those chaps went through to achieve victory.’
Bomber Command Historical Society Journal
‘Twenty exciting and bizarre stories featuring the young men whose chances of survival were slim.'
Grantham Journal