Damned Good Show

Bomber crews brave German flak and fighter planes as the fightback begins.

'Tough, taut prose that pulls you through the book like a steel cable' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian.

'Mordantly funny and, in its way, as loud an anti-battle cry as Catch 22' Toby Clements, Telegraph.

Derek Robinson, the son of a policeman, read history at Cambridge before working in advertising in London and New York. His novel Goshawk Squadron was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1971.