Bomber

The story of one Allied air raid over twenty-four hours remains one of the finest British war novels

In Bomber there are no victors, no vanquished. There are simply those who remain alive, and those who die.

This extraordinary novel follows the progress of an Allied air raid through a period of twenty-four hours in the summer of 1943. Beginning in East Anglia, with the intricate preparations of a crew stretched to breaking point after multiple missions, it builds to a terrible crescendo in the small German town of Altgarten. Told from the perspectives of all those involved, both in the air and on the ground, in Britain and in Germany, it is a devastating portrait of the horror and the wreckage of war.

Len Deighton has been equally acclaimed as a novelist and as an historian. In Bomber he has combined both talents to produce a masterpiece.