{"product_id":"9781789297065-lancaster-story","title":"The Lancaster Story","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTrue Tales of Britain’s Legendary Bomber\u003cbr\u003eA dramatic and vividly rendered account of the most successful RAF bomber of the Second World War – the Avro Lancaster – and the lives of the men and women who flew, designed, constructed and maintained it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe epic story of the RAF’s legendary heavy bomber: the Avro Lancaster\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lancaster Story \u003c\/i\u003etakes readers on \u003cb\u003ea remarkable journey\u003c\/b\u003e through the history of an aviation icon. Between its introduction in 1942 and the end of the Second World War, the Avro Lancaster flew more than 150,000 sorties, dropped more than 600,000 tons of explosives and took the Allied fight to Nazi Germany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003etrue workhorse \u003c\/b\u003eof the RAF’s bomber corps, the ‘Lanc’ featured on some of the most daring and celebrated missions of the war, including the heroic Dambusters raid and the Operation Hydra bombing. These and many other successes came at a significant cost, however: almost half of the 7,377 Lancasters deployed into service were lost in action.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUsing \u003cb\u003earchival documents\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eletters\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003efirst-hand accounts\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Lancaster Story\u003c\/i\u003e delivers a dramatic and \u003cb\u003evividly rendered account\u003c\/b\u003e of the most successful RAF bomber of the Second World War and the lives of the men and women who flew, designed, constructed and maintained it. Combining \u003cb\u003eindividual stories\u003c\/b\u003e into a gripping, \u003cb\u003epanoramic\u003c\/b\u003e narrative, it paints a complete portrait of the battle over Europe, and the Lancaster’s unique and decisive role in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41687793467489,"sku":"9781789297065","price":13.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_29852679.jpg?v=1726066357","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781789297065-lancaster-story","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}