Jim K’s Reviews > Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943 > Status Update

The author devotes a good deal of the middle chapters to revealing the characters of the crews (there were 17 Lancasters involved in the raid), which i found only mildly interesting. Much later, after a fine description of the sorties in May 1943, and to his great credit, he describes the terrible toll on the noncombatant German citizens and POW’s. Well over 2,000 persons perished