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The Night the Dams Burst Kindle Edition

by David Irving (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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THIS BOOK tells the Real History of the heroic RAF moonlight attack on Germany’s Ruhr Dams in May 1943, immortalised by the movie The Dambusters. The author’s account is based on his interviews with Bomber Command officers and official British and German documents, and on exclusive access to the private papers and diaries of Dr Barnes Wallis – the British scientist who invented the unique “bouncing bomb” which smashed the dams. Originally published by The Sunday Express, London.

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August 19, 2013
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David Irving is a patient researcher of unrivalled industry and success --A.J.P. Taylor, "The Observer," London

No praise can be too high for Irving's indefatigable scholarly industry. --Hugh Trevor-Roper, "Sunday Times," London

About the Author

A professional historian of noted distinction, David Irving has researched and written about the Third Reich with passionate insight for many years. His first book, 'The Destruction of Dresden', was just one of several startling international bestsellers, which include 'Churchill's War' and 'Hitler's War'. The son of a Royal Navy commander, he was Educated at Imperial College of Science & Technology and at University College London. He spent a year in Germany working in a steel mill, perfecting his fluency in the language. Among his thirty books, the best known include 'Hitler's War'; 'The Trail of the Fox: The Life of Field-Marshal Rommel'; 'Accident, the Death of General Sikorski'; 'The Rise and Fall of the Luftwaffe', Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich'; 'Nuremberg: The Last Battle'; and 'Goering: a Biography'. He has also translated several works by other authors. He lives in London and is the father of five daughters. He maintains an extensive website, updated daily, dealing with both historical and current events, commenting in his uniquely British way on all matters of import.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00EO335DI
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Focal Point Publications (August 19, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 19, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2444 KB
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 100 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #1,882,871 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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- #5,905 in Military & Spies Biographies

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Riveting

Reviewed in the United States on August 12, 2019

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Best book I've read in months. Short but great. All I can say is wow. The ingenuity to create such a bomb. It is clear the Germans knew the dams wluld be targeted ahead of tome. To have repairs completed so quickly.

Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2017

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Irving does his usual complete narrative.

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mjare

What happens when the dams break?

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2022

Known British historian, David Irving is a person whose name gives the shudders to many people. As a widely-read historian without a university diploma, who was preparing himself for the historian craft working among other professions as a steelmaker in the German smelter, makes the official academic historians envious. The reason for this envy is simple: Official academic historians tend to write books which have only one avid reader - the dust in the library. As a brave and independent scholar, Mr. Irving without any constraints uses his right to present his own views and opinion on the events of the past in his books. This is unquestionably an added value of his works to the discussion of our not so distant and turbulent past. In his book entitled ''The night the dams burst'' he offered a nice and relatively brief description of a history of the inventor of so-called ''bouncing'' bomb together with a story of those who successfully broke the dams with this type of bombs. The book itself, despite its modest length, which is an exception in case of works of Mr. Irving, is opulent with numerous details related to described historical events. The descriptions done by Mr. Irving are enriched by the following: his unquestionable aptitude for writing, knowledge about the basics of physics (what is not so common amongst academic historians), and the use of historical sources that include among others the author's personal conversations with witnesses of those turbulent events. As a reader, I wish I (and also others) had more such works to read in the future.

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Andrew Wilson

Great read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2023

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What I like about this book is that it gets them the point straight away and the detail gleaned from original sources is excellent. Well worth the trouble to read.

Neat Whisky!

Very good book. Tells the basic story of this great ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 29, 2014

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Very good book. Tells the basic story of this great raid. If you want non of the technical stuff and want to know the basic story of this raid, then this book is perfect.

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