1942 was a crucial year for Bomber Command with the planning of a vast air attack on Germany by at least one thousand bombers. This book explains each of the three 'thousand bomber' raids and how it changed the fortunes of Bomber Command and the Second World War.
Martyn Chorlton was born in the north Cambridgeshire fens during the late 1960s. He joined the RAF as an Air Photographer in 1984. After tours in Germany and Northern Ireland, his service came to an end in 1997 and, a few years later he wrote his first aviation book. He is a regular magazine contributor to Aeroplane Monthly, Jets, Airfix and Aviation Classics and is the author of Bomber Command The Victoria Cross Raids and The RAF Pathfinders.