Journey's End: Bomber Command's Battle from Arnhem to Dresden and Beyond
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Journey's End: Bomber Command's Battle from Arnhem to Dresden and Beyond Details
Review A brilliant insight into life in the air and on the ground, and considers why a force that took the war into the heart of Germany on a nightly basis was ignored when the fighting stopped ... a long way to answering why there will be a memorial to these brave airmen in a London park―ObserverMasterly approach ... it makes fascinating reading and will be of huge interest to all who remember the dying days of the last war―Church of England NewspaperDespite their enormous courage and huge sacrifice, Britain has never formally acknowledged the bravery of the men who fought through the Second World War in Bomber Command. The men's valour was betrayed by politicians and they have been denied a medal honouring their campaign―Sunday ExpressA sobering, deeply moving and historically fascinating account ... Kevin Wilson has brought some striking new research to bear in this brilliant work ... As is made painfully clear through anecdotes, many veterans of Bomber Command are left with terrible memories of what they endured in the struggle for national survival Read more About the Author Kevin Wilson has spent most of his working life as a staff journalist on British national newspapers, including the Daily Mail and latterly the Daily and Sunday Express. He is married with three grown-up sons and a daughter. Read more
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Reviews
Wilson's trilogy is the possibly the best book about Bomber Command. Martin Middlebrook's are excellent too and certainly as good as Wilson's; the difference between them being that Wilson's are a history from beginning to the end of WW2 whereas Middlebrook's focus on particular raids or topics.There is some detail including about the business of running an aerodrome which is welcome as most books ignore that and deal only with the flight crews and their activities. If you were to read only one book (or one set of books on Bomber Command in WW2) I'd read Wilson's trilogy. If only one book of his, then probably the middle one dealing with 1943 to late 1944.I would have liked a little more detail of what happened in the day-to-day life on the aerodromes, more interviews or quotations from ground crews, those who ran the bases, and some WRAFs. A bit more on how everybody felt and acted in the last couple of weeks and the first weeks after VE Day. I had imagined more relief and weariness than the dancing in Trafalgar Square that is usually depicted and the author does touch on that.