Enemy Coast Ahead - Uncensored

The Real Guy Gibson - Leader of the Dambusters

By: Guy Gibson

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Paperback | 1 November 2006

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First published in 1944, Enemy Coast Ahead combines Guy Gibson's RAF career, including the famous Dambuster raid which he himself led, with the inside story of life in RAF Bomber Command and is still a riveting read for the immediacy and vibrancy of its writing. And yet, what has not been widely known is that the published edition of Enemy Coast Ahead was carefully cut by wartime censors.

Now, Gibson's original manuscript, which was archived for almost 75 years, has been be brought to light. This uncut edition provides not only previously unpublished details of Gibson's career, but also reveals his true view of the course of the war, of the wartime population, of his pilots and crews and of Bomber Command tactics. Combined with newly added photographs and diagrams Enemy Coast Ahead-Uncensored remains one of the outstanding accounts of WWII seen through the eyes of one of its most respected and controversial personalities, and allows the reader to know Gibson's own story through his own words.

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Special Preface to the 1998 Edition	p. 7
Introduction	p. 9
Foreword and dedication	p. 11
Flight out	p. 17
Peace and war	p. 25
Learn by mistakes	p. 53
The fun begins	p. 57
Balloon cables and bottles	p. 67
Maximum effort	p. 77
Sustained effort	p. 91
Battle of the Barges	p. 99
Interlude	p. 111
29 Fighter Squadron	p. 115
Dusk readiness	p. 125
Find the Hun	p. 135
The Heavy Brigade	p. 151
Turning of the tide	p. 179
The shape of things	p. 197
Squadron X	p. 213
By trial and error	p. 239
Some were unlucky	p. 255
Immediate aftermath	p. 275
German casualties	p. 279
Index	p. 282
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Enemy Coast Ahead - Uncensored

The Real Guy Gibson - Leader of the Dambusters

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