Well this is interesting, chronicling the trip of a Lancaster on a night bombing mission to Berlin. The characters are drawn reasonably well, and story, pretty conventional. Read "Bomber" by Len Deighton instead. ( )

Dunmore, a Canadian author, writes wonderful books about aviation. In this effort he describes the thirtieth bombing mission of an RAF crew made up of RAF, RCAF, & RAAF members flying a Lancaster to Germany. They run into a Messerschmidt fighter pilot who seeks revenge for the death of his parents from Allied bombing. The drama covers the flight home with fighter trying to bring down the wounded bomber but eventually he runs out of ammunition and tries other ways to bring the plane down. Meanwhile in the bomber cockpit we see the crew fighting to keep the damaged Lancaster in the air while trying to avoid the German pilot's efforts to bring them down. Nail biting story. ( )