The grandfather of the author was a pilot in a squadron made up of Britons and Canadians. The story of this crew, from 1942 onwards, is so special because, collectively, they experienced everything possible: dangerous flights, the crash, imprisonment and death.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Introduction
• PART 1 Chapter 1 Bomber Command and a New Recruit
• Chapter 2 New Crew, Training and Frustration
• Chapter 3 New Squadron, Joining the Air Battle
• Chapter 4 Operational Squadron
• Chapter 5 ‘Corkscrew Port - Now!’
• Chapter 6 The Big City
• Chapter 7 Deep into the Reich
• Chapter 8 Pathfinders and Leipzig
• Chapter 9 Schweinfurt and Winds over Berlin
• Chapter 10 Invasion Preparations
• Chapter 11 ‘Bale Out!’
• Chapter 12 ‘Regret to Inform You . . .’
• PART 2 Chapter 13 Lancaster Down!
• Chapter 14 Hiding
• Chapter 15 Evader
• Chapter 16 Capture
• Chapter 17 Prisoner of the Reich
• Chapter 18 Evacuation
• Chapter 19 Misery at Nuremberg
• Chapter 20 Freedom
• Chapter 21 Frustration at Luckenwalde
• Epilogue
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index