Bomber

Len Deighton — one of the masters of twentieth-centuryespionage fiction — combines his expertise as both historian and novelist in Bomber,the classic World War II novel that relates, in devastating detail, thetwenty-four-hour story of an allied bombing raid.

Skilled Royal Air Force bomber pilot Sam Lambert isexhausted, and his veteran crewmen have just been replaced by an inexperiencednew team. Victor von Löwenherz, a German night fighter pilot who intercepts RAFbombers in his Junkers Ju 88, looks on with horror at the Nazi regime. AndHansl, a German boy in the small market town of Altgarten, sleeps at home. Lambertand his crew prepare for a bombing raid on the Ruhr area. It’s a night thatmany will never forget.

Bomber is a masterful, gripping, minute-by-minuteaccount of what occurs over the next twenty-four hours. Told through the eyesof protag­onists on all sides and astonishingly precise in its depictions ofplanes, weapons, and behind-the-scenes war strategy, this is Len Deighton athis best. An unforgettable portrait of war, both in the air and on the ground.