Description

This is a classic account of the Second World War bombing of the three massive German dams Moehne, Eder and Sorpe, as told by military historian and ex-Great Escapee Paul Brickhill, and originally published in 1951. In fact, it is not so much a history of the dam-busting operation (which is less than half the book), as a history of 617 squadron, which was set up specifically for this operation under the command of Wing Commander Guy Gibson.