{"product_id":"9781786080257","title":"Dambuster: The Life of Guy Gibson VC","description":"\u003cp\u003eFEW MEN HAVE A BETTER CLAIM TO BE CALLED A LEGEND\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIN THEIR OWN LIFETIME THAN GUY GIBSON.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeader of the famous Dambuster Raid of May 1943, which became\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epart of the popular folklore of the Second World War after the film\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ein which Richard Todd took the part of the hero, Gibson himself\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewas tragically in an air crash in 1944.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in India in 1918 and brought up in England, Guy Gibson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ejoined the RAF in November 1936. Thereafter his career can be seen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eas a battle between, on the one hand, his uncertain temperament and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eless than ideal private life, and, on the other, his undoubted skills as\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ean airman and as a leader of men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe war was to bring him adventure and, later, fame. He took part in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe first aerial attack of the war, on the Kiel Canal; he served in\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFighter Command and then, in 1943, came the famous raid on the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMohne and Eder dams for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy now a hero of international fame, he was sent on a Public\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRelations tour of North America, but he was above all a flyer and,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003erefusing to remain grounded, he died an airman’s death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new edition, which draws on conversations with members of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGibson’s family and on notes made by his widow, expands upon his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eearly life in a severely dysfunctional family, his unhappy marriage and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe possible reason for his untimely death in September 1944.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Thistle Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050154868976,"sku":"9781786080257","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781786080257_p0.jpg?v=1763738238","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781786080257","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}