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Feast, Sean

 
9781802822113: Pathfinders: The Definitive Story
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1802822119 ISBN 13: 9781802822113
Verlag: Key Publishing, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Pathfinders is a new history of Bomber Command's corps d'elite and the men who led the greatest striking force ever known. The story explores the genesis of Pathfinder Force (PFF), from its initial inception and less-than-spectacular start to its development as a precision instrument that gave the razor edge to the RAF bomber offensive. It looks at its difficult birth - Sir Arthur Harris was vehemently opposed to its creation - and the key personalities and squabbles, in particular the increasingly bitter rivalry between the mercurial PFF commander, Australian Donald Bennett, and his rival in 5 Group, Sir Ralph Cochrane, and what Bennett saw as Harris' ultimate betrayal. The book explores how crews became Pathfinders, some with bounding enthusiasm, others more reluctantly or by chance, and how the quality and availability of crews varied throughout the war. Drawing on more than 20 years of research and interviews with the heroes of PFF, it considers their training and the methods and techniques deployed on operations including the Master Bomber system, and it examines their successes and failures, the tragedies and triumphs, and Pathfinder Force's vital contribution to victory in Europe.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sean Feast is a Director and co-owner of Gravity London and the author of several books on World War II pilots.

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Verlag
Key Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1802822119
ISBN 13 
9781802822113
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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