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Jack Currie
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Pages: 192 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0907579280
Pub: Goodall Publications Ltd
Pub date: 2004-02
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 64364
Reader Reviews:
A long-time favourite (2/2 people found this helpful)
I must admit I didn't buy this book from Amazon, in fact I have had it more than 25 years and I still enjoy reading it.
Gripping descriptions of bombing missions are interspersed with other anecdotes, often very funny and irreverant. You get a real feeling of what it was like and how Currie and his crew coped when others didn't.
Highly recommended.
Lest we forget (4/4 people found this helpful)
Probably one of the greatest books ever written about life on a bomber station during the war. In today's world we cannot begin to contemplate how stressful it must have been flying to Germany night after night "running the gauntlet" and defying the odds!
Wickenby (where Mr Currie was stationed), in Lincolnshire is a small village with its airfield just down the road, and this book is so evocative of the times and the area. You'll find yourself wanting to visit!
Jack Currie is one of my heroes (in the true sense of the word)as are the many 1,000's like him who we have to thank in order to be able to write reviews like this!! He deserves the highest accolade having written such a poignant book. I salute you, Sir!
Lancaster Target (19/19 people found this helpful)
This is the most amazing book. My grandfather flew Lancasters in the 2nd World War, and this gave me a real insight into the astonishing things that happened during that time, the risks the crews faced, and the lottery of survival. I cannot recommend it strongly enough, it is thoroughly readable, and manages to tell the story of one crew in a human, touching, yet humorous way.
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