Lancaster: The Forging of a Very British Legend

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Our tempting offer lets you enjoy a delicious two-course evening meal – a main meal plus a starter or a dessert – and a selected drink from our dinner menu. Focusing on the men (and women) who flew the Spitfire, John Nichol has brought a fresh and powerful perspective to the story.The human ingenuity invested in machines of destructive power, the courage and commitment of those flying them in the face of surely the most horrific casualty rate of any service (40% of Bomber Command's airmen died - possibly only the U-boat crews had a worse outcome) - yet night after night they delivered devastation to civilian cities as well as military targets. However this book addresses it head on and although in WW2 civilian casualties were high the cost of losing to the Nazis would have been a hundred times worse.

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Their stories are fragments of memory caught and preserved so faithfully by Nichol in this a collection of tales of ordinary people living through extraordinary events. Children 13 years and above are able to skate independently, and should purchase an Adult ticket for this purpose. In ten chapters he examines themes such as 'House and Home', 'Working for a Living' and 'Where do you come from?

Ultimately it's a tribute to those who developed and built the Lancaster and, above all, the young men who flew in it and died in their thousands. Then for dessert, you can treat yourself to an indulgent Black Forest Crownie or a sweet Banoffee Cheesecake. My late stepfather was a flight engineer, and this story answered many unasked questions that I had. The Lancaster crews had the highest fatality rate of WW2 they also got the most criticism and were accused of war crimes because of the Dresden and cologne bombings . Ostensibly a tribute to the RAF bomber that helped win World War II, Nichol's book actually ends up being more of a tribute to the men who flew the Lancaster.The story point was that this sanitised but murderous game of war had desensitised the participants and allowed the war to go on for generations without resolution. Its position on the main west-coast road to and from Scotland has on numerous occasions led to the passage of hostile armies. The timetable and room booking team are responsible for the construction and maintenance of the University's teaching timetable and also manage the internal ad-hoc room booking service.