Bomber: Events Relating to the Last Flight of an R.A.F. Bomber

Bomber: Events Relating to the Last Flight of an R.A.F. Bomber over Germany on the Night of June 31, 1943

*Bomber is highly regarded by some critics. Anthony Burgess, in Ninety-nine Novels, cited it as one of the 99 best novels in English since 1939. *First book written with the help of a word processer - IBM's MTST (Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter *In 1979 MotÃ¶rhead frontman, Lemmy, dedicated the band's third album Bomber to Len Deighton, as it was his novel that had inspired the title-track. Bomber follows the course of a single raid by the RAF (taking place on June 31, 1943) through the eyes of dozens of different characters-British and German, combatants and civilians, in the air and on the ground alike. Deighton prepared for the writing with thousands of hours of research, including site visits to the locations depicted in the book, stints in the military archives, scores of interviews, and a cross-Channel flight in a restored German Heinkel III. He kept meticulous notes, all of them color-coded and cross-referenced. Meanwhile, the walls of his London home were papered with maps and weather charts of Europe, which he used to storyboard the unfolding action, placing tape and tags to mark the positions of different aircraft over the course of the book in order to ensure narrative continuity-an uncanny reminder of the big-board displays used by wartime air controllers to maintain situational awareness during the actual bombing raids.
Country USA
Manufacturer Harper & Row, Publishers
Binding Mass Market Paperback
UnitCount 1
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Harper & Row, Publishers
Binding	Mass Market Paperback
UnitCount	1
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Bomber: Events Relating to the Last Flight of an R.A.F. Bomber over Germany on the Night of June 31, 1943

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