This vividly powerful and absorbing biography of an RAF rear gunner during World War Two is told with both sensitivity and humour. With accounts from some of Trevor’s contemporaries, including Marshal of the Royal Air force, Sir Michael Beetham, himself a World War Two bomber pilot and survivor of the ill-fated Nuremburg raid, this latest book by Kenneth Ballantyne, meticulously researched, lavishly illustrated and written in his now familiar easy style, is enthralling from start to finish.
Born in Shropshire, Trevor’s story embraces his childhood and early career on the TPO. Living through the London Blitz, he volunteered for Bomber Command Aircrew. Sent on the first 1,000 bomber raids, he later cheated death when his turret was riddled by cannon fire. Shot down over the North African Desert, for three days he walked back through enemy lines. A second tour followed in Lancasters, flying from Lincolnshire into the heavily defended German heartland, where night fighters relentlessly stalked the bomber stream every mile across occupied Europe.
Another Dawn Another Dusk: "336 pages with 137 b&w photographs running through the text on high quality paper".
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