BOMBER

Skilled Royal Air Force bomber pilot Sam Lambert is exhausted, and his veteran crewmen have just been replaced by an inexperienced new team. Victor von Löwenherz, a German night fighter pilot who intercepts RAF bombers in his Junkers Ju88, looks on with horror at the Nazi regime. Hansl, a German boy in the small market town of Altgarten, sleeps at home. Lambert and his crew prepare for a bombing raid on the Ruhr area. It's a night that many will never forget. Bomber is a masterful, gripping, minute-by-minute account of what occurs over the next 24 hours, told through the eyes of protagonists on all sides. It is astonishingly precise in its depictions of planes, weapons and behind-the-scenes war strategy, an unforgettable portrait of war both in the air and on the ground. Len Deighton combines his expertise as both a historian and novelist in this classic Second World War novel. Nicely designed series, 484pp in paperback.