Author Description

About the Author Gavin Lyall was born in 1932. He is a former RAF pilot. His books include The Wrong Side of the Sky; Midnight Plus One; Operation Warboard; and Spy’s Honour. Gavin Lyall died in 2003. Product Description The second volume of the classic Freedom’s Battle trilogy provides intensely vivid accounts of the war in the air.From the brilliant summer nonchalance of 1940 to the grim, anonymous exhaustion of the bomber crews delivering the infernos of Hamburg and Dresden, all the great dramas of the air war are here, described by the men of the British and Commonwealth Air Forces who did the fighting. We accompany them in the desperate days of the fall of France; during the Battle of Britain; throughout the agony of Bomber Command; over the high seas; to Malta; the desert battles; and in the struggle with Japan. Review "Comprehensive, skilfully edited and eminently readable." Sunday Times "A wonderful selection." Yorkshire Post "It presents a faithful and graphic series of pictures linked by the briefest and clearest summaries... Well balanced and comprehensive." Times Literary Supplement