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Paperback. Pub Date:2014-01-16 English HarperCollins UK From best-selling author of Tail-End Charlie and Tornado Down comes this powerful and deeply moving account of Bomber Commands 1944 Nuremberg Raid - the RAFs bloodiest night of the Second World War More men from Royal Air Force Bomber Command died on one single night of the Second World War than the total RAF aircrew losses during the whole of the four-month-long Battle of Britain. This is the story of the air raid intended to be the climax of Sir Arthur Bomber Harriss relentless campaign to defeat Nazi Germany The target was 795 aircraft set out. nearly 700 men did not return In The Red Line. we meet the young aircrew who flew on the night of 30 March 1944. John Nichol has interviewed the few surviving veterans. British and German. in the air and on the ground. to record the voices of...