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Enemy Coast Ahead

The Memoir of Dambuster Guy Gibson

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By: Guy Gibson
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A definitive new edition of a classic memoir, published in association with the RAF Museum, complete with notes from leading historians.

Guy Gibson was the leader of the famous Dambusters raid and Enemy Coast Ahead is a vivid, honest account, widely regarded as one of the best books on World War II. It is also an insider's account that sets down in clear, honest detail the challenges that the RAF faced in the war against Germany's Luftwaffe.

Tragically, Gibson died in September 1944, when his Mosquito crashed near Steenbergen in the Netherlands. He was aged just 26. This new book has been published to mark the 75th anniversary of his death and includes an introduction by James Holland, a historian and broadcaster, and notes by Dr. Robert Owen, the Official Historian of the No. 617 Squadron Association.

©2019 Guy Gibson (P)2020 Greenhill Books 20th Century Air Forces Armed Forces Engineering Europe Great Britain Historical Military Military & War Modern World War II Memoir Aviation War England Thought-Provoking US Air Force Submarine
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I echo the other reviews of this quite magnificent autobiography.

The significance of the author, together with the story he had to tell deserves so much better than the bland and soulless voice of the narrator. The mispronunciations are difficult to hear, particularly when he uses the American pronunciation of lieutenant, which is criminal considering it’s a book about a British war hero.

However, do not let this detract from the fact it really is a very well written and gripping book.

Great story, not so great storyteller.

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Gibson in his own words is not the marionette others have made him out to be NOR the firm jawed hero as portrayed by Richard Todd in the film but a far more complex and thoughtful character.. well worth hearing his own view of the war and his part in it ..

New perspective

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This is a wonderful and interesting book writen by a special man.

I've the read book many times and it's a real page turner.

...but where on earth did they get the narrator from? He sounds like he's reading from a book in a school english class and he's only doing so because the teacher forced him to.

He's not so much boring as bored, can't be bothered, wishes he could be somewhere else.

You know Ferris Bueller's teacher - the one who says "Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? - This is him.

Please someone, re-record this with a narrator that can be bothered - the book deserves better

Wonderful Book Totally Ruined By The Narrator

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A poignant read. Written by a young leader who within a year was to give his own life. No review could ever do this book, this author, justice. Highly recommended

Written by a hero who soon too to give his life

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it's amazing how the narrator can completely ruin an audiobook! this one is dire awful

monotone narrator ...dire

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