GIBSON, GUY — Enemy Coast Ahead

UK, Bridge Books. 1995. Hardcover with dust jacket, 25cm. Ill.: Malcolm Kinnear. Book, Faults first >> a few page edges protrude from the text block as untrimmed/mistrimmed. 240 crisp p, pencil sketch endpapers, approx 900g for post. introduction by HARRIS, SIR ARTHUR ("BOMBER") GIBSON Guy Gibson was one of the most important British pilots of the Second World War. As leader of the Dambusters raid, he did as much to damage the Nazi war machine as anyone. First published in 1944, Guy Gibson's Enemy Coast Ahead quickly became regarded as the classic Bomber Command book, following Gibson's RAF career from flying the Hampden and Manchester at the beginning of WWII to the triumphant return home of the Lancasters from the famous 1943 Dambuster raid which Gibson led and for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Enemy Coast Ahead is also the inside story of life in Bomber Command throughout the first five years of WW2, culminating in breath-holding drama as the RAF planned, practiced and strove towards breaching the dams on that famous night in May 1943 , Very Good/Very Good.