Dam Busters Manual: A guide to the weapons technology used against the dams and special targets of Nazi-occupied Europe - Tapa dura

`the human story shines through to give a feeling for the desperate times that required such ingenuity and sacrifice.' Engineering Designer `comprehensive selection of rare archive photographs, technical drawings and specially commissioned artwork' FlyPast `Haynes have excelled themselves...packed with information and illustration to stimulate even the most jaded palette' Pilot `absolutely fascinating' Best of British `blow-by-blow account of how the modified Lancaster bombers were used in the attack.' Daily Mail

The famous dams raid in May 1943 was made possible only by the fusion of cutting-edge technology with the raw courage of a hand-picked squadron of RAF airmen. The incredible bouncing bomb, used to devastating effect by 617 Squadron on the Ruhr dams, was the vanguard of a whole train of technical developments that made this and other precision raids possible. Using the Haynes Manual approach, Iain Murray describes the technology behind the bouncing bomb as well as the heavily modified Lancasters that were used to deliver the weapons.