Bomber Barons

by Chaz Bowyer

1st Book Club 1983 edition 1st printing hardcover fine book & fine dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Chaz Bowyer (1927-2008) was an aviation historian and author. He joined the RAF, aged 16, in 1942 and left it in 1969. Then he turned his hand to his life-long passion for aviation and started writing.

Reviews

[Alistair Robinson · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was first published in 1983 but remains an interesting and moving insight into the role and sacrifice of Bomber Command during WW2. The book focusses on the stories of a number of pilots and crew, a couple well known like Guy Gibson and Leonard Cheshire but others less remembered. There are accounts of immense bravery and survival , young men going out night after night , seeing friends killed, aircraft shot to pieces then volunteering for more. There are a good number of photos. I would recommend this to anyone but in particular those who talk of the destruction of German cities as a war crime should read these accounts then reflect.

[Ian Chapman · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting biographical details for some of the less well known senior pilots.