During the Second World War the night sky over Europe was one of the most lethal places to wage war. By 1945 almost half of the airmen who flew with Bomber Command and a third of the Luftwaffe night fighter crew pitted against them had been killed. Many German cities became moonscapes of rubble, their inhabitants the first to experience the reality of ‘total war’ – itself a glimpse of the destructive potential of the nuclear age about to explode in the Far East.
The United Kingdom edition of Under a Bomber's Moon, published in July 2011, features a new cover and several dramatic updates on the 2009 editions.
The Pen and Sword edition will be the first time some of the extraordinary responses from people connected to the events in the first and second editions have appeared in print, plus there are updates on what became of some of them.
Many developments in response to the first and second editions remain exclusive to this website, including the terrifying story of escaping a stricken Lancaster by its sole survivor and the exclusive, the soul-searching admonition by Otto Fries's daughter of the legacy her generation of Germans had to confront and the first-hand account by Luftwaffe ace Paul Zorner of shooting down the uncle of a New Zealand acquaintance of the author.
The UK edition can be ordered via the Pen and Sword website at: http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/Under-A-Bombers-Moon/p/3146/