Bøker av Simon Gooch

John Colliers war began on day one, flying Hampdens in 83 Squadron with his friend Guy Gibson, in a hunt for the battleship Admiral Scheer. By the summer of 1940 he was bombing the Dortmund-Ems Canal at low-level, then Bordeaux and the Scharnhorst at Brest, which led to his DFC and Bar.

This is the authorised biography of Group Captain John 'Joe' Collier, DSO, DFC and Bar, an esteemed Second World War pilot and one of the masterminds behind the iconic Dambuster Raid and the attack on Peenemunde's V-Weapons research station.