Colin Bell DFC is one of the most remarkable people Ive ever met JAMES HOLLANDA terrific read, combining laughoutloud reminiscences with jawdropping accounts of aerial warfare JOHN NICHOLBrimming with quiet courage and patriotism Daily MailThey dont make them like Flt Lt Bell anymore Daily ExpressFlightLieutenant Colin Bells Bloody Dangerous is a powerful and inspiring portrait of bravery in action, full of touching admiration for his RAF comrades one in three of whom were killed. He paints an extraordinarily vivid picture of what it was like to fly a Mosquito the wooden wonder in 50 raids over Germany, 13 of them to Berlin itself. There, coned by searchlights, he experienced the terror of being tracked by devastatingly effective 88 mm radarcontrolled antiaircraft guns when he wasnt being chased by nightfighting Messchersmitt 262s the only aircraft in the German armoury capable of outrunning the Mosquito. Bell suffered engine failures, fuel starvation, near fatal ice, numerous hits to his plane and, on one occasion, an explosion so close there was shrapnel in his parachute and burn marks on his navigators flying suit.Bell takes us from prewar London, where he wooed his girlfriend with tickets to see a new film opening in Leicester Square (it was Gone with the Wind), to terrifying scenes of the Blitz itself he joined up after seeing a bomb fall on the other side of the street on which he was walking. As a member of the elite Pathfinder 608 squadron he was part of the...

Binding: Hardcover;288 pages; Publisher: Hachette UK Distribution; Classification: BM; Weight: 622 g; Dimensions: 162 x 242 x 29

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