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A Raid Over Berlin

By John Martin

Book information

Publisher
Parthian Books
Year
2019
ISBN
1912681196, 9781912681198
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2603942 bytes)
Edition
Paperback
Pages
248\0
Time added
2019-02-08 10:07:04

Description

‘I could see that still no one had been able to get out from the cockpit. It must have been at this moment that I thought I was going to die because I became remarkably calm.’ Trapped inside a burning Lancaster bomber, 20,000 feet above Berlin, airman John Martin consigned himself to his fate and turned his thoughts to his fiancée back home. In a miraculous turn of events, however, the twenty-one year old was thrown clear of his disintegrating aeroplane and found himself parachuting into the heart of Nazi Germany. He was soon to be captured and began his period as a prisoner of war. This engaging and compulsively readable true-life account of a Second World War airman, who cheated death in the sky, only to face interrogation and the prospect of being shot by the Gestapo, before having to endure months of hardship as a prisoner of war.

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