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Product Description'Bomber' follows the progress of an Allied air raid through a period of 24 hours in the summer of 1943. It portrays all the participants in a terrifying drama, in the air and on the ground, in Britain and Germany.Review`A massively different novel... the effect is - quite literally - devastating' Sunday Times `A massive and superbly mobilised tragedy of the machines which men make to destroy themselves. Masterly and by far Mr Deighton's best'. Douglas Hurd, The Spectator `A magnificent story... the characters lean out of the pages' Daily Mirror `For sheer readability he has no peer'The Standard 'The magnificent Bomber is rich with historical detail' The TimesAbout the AuthorBorn in London, Len Deighton served in the RAF before graduating from the Royal College of Art (which recently elected him a Senior Fellow). While in New York City working as a magazine illustrator he began writing his first novel, The Ipcress File, which was published in 1962. He is now the author of more than thirty books of fiction and non-fiction. At present living in Europe, he has, over the years, lived with his family in ten different countries from Austria to Portugal.From the PublisherTHE CLASSIC DOCUMENTARY NOVEL OF WAR'A massively different novel... The effect is - quite literally - devastating' - Sunday Times