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Operation Chastise the RAF's most brilliant attack of World War II

Tells the story of the infamous British military operation, the Dambusters raid. This aerial bombing attack, called Operation Chastise, was responsible for the overnight destruction of the Möhne and Eder dams in northwest Germany by Britain's Royal air Force 617 Squadron, an epic wartime maneuver t...

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Main Author: Hastings, Max (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2020]
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Subjects:
Operation Chastise, 1943.
Dams > Germany > Ruhr (Region) > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Destruction and pillage > Germany > Ruhr (Region)
World War, 1939-1945 > Aerial operations, British.
Ruhr (Germany : Region) > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Prologue
  • Grand strategy, great dams
  • The Boffin and his bombs
  • Command and controversy
  • Men and machines
  • The brink of battle
  • Chastise
  • At the dams
  • The Möhnekatastrope
  • Heroes
  • Landings
  • Appendix I: 617 Squadron's crews who flew on the night of 16/17 May 1943
  • Appendix II: Landmark dates in the evolution of Chastise
  • Appendix III: A chronology of Operation Chastise 16/17 May 1943.

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