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"Aircraft carriers, jet fighters and a crisis on the other side of the world. Who could ask for more? It takes an obscure corner of British military history and weaves a story as gripping as any Tom Clancy thriller. It's completely riveting."
-- Jeremy Clarkson
"From the cockpit of a fighter jet to the violently pitching deck of an aircraft carrier at night, Rowland White combines pulse-pounding tension with riveting detail. If only all military history was written like this."
--Andy McNab, author of Brave Two Zero
From the Hardcover edition.
-- Jeremy Clarkson
"From the cockpit of a fighter jet to the violently pitching deck of an aircraft carrier at night, Rowland White combines pulse-pounding tension with riveting detail. If only all military history was written like this."
--Andy McNab, author of Brave Two Zero
From the Hardcover edition.
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January 1972: the tiny outpost of British Honduras is threatened with imminent invasion by battle-hardened, US-trained Guatemalan paratroops. Britain's response must be immediate and decisive. But there is only one deterrent the government can offer: HMS Ark Royal, once the Navy's most powerful warship, now a white elephant on the verge of being scrapped. To save the small colony, she must launch a pair of Buccaneer fighter bombers on an unprecedented long-range mission. But first the old carrier must make a high-speed, 1,500 mile dash across the Atlantic towards the Gulf of Mexico. The odds of arriving in time are very slim indeed...Drawing on extensive first-hand accounts and previously unseen, classified documents, Rowland White has pieced together one of the most audacious and thrilling missions of post-war British military history.
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1 von 1 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Format:Taschenbuch
Der Hauptaufhänger des Buches -die "show of force" der Buccaneers- ist vielleicht nicht ganz so dramatisch, wie man zunächst anhand des Umschlagtextes erwartet wenn man keine Vorkenntnisse hat, aber die fundierte und detaillierte Schilderung der Abläufe an Bord der Ark Royal und in den Cockpits hat mich dafür allemal entschädigt. Wer an diesem Themenbereich interessiert ist, dem kann ich das Buch nur empfehlen.
Format:Taschenbuch
Schon das erste Buch des Authors war ausgezeichnet , das Nachfolgewerk zeigt die fast unbekannte Episode der Unabhängigkeit von Britsch Honduras / Belize .
Hervorragend und eindringlich geschrieben bringt er das gefährliche " Geschäft " der Marinefliegerei näher !
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Hervorragend und eindringlich geschrieben bringt er das gefährliche " Geschäft " der Marinefliegerei näher !
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A nearly perfect account of carrier operations
30. Juni 2009
Format:Taschenbuch
In this book you'll find some non-sensical and inconsistent capitalisation, misspelled place names, and some unnecessary italics. Rowland also occassionally sneaks "the" in front of ship names - though he's better than most at refraining from that bad habit. (The cities of London and New York aren't referred to as "the London" and "the New York"; ship names are proper nouns, too.) However, most annoying is how often he starts sentences with "And".
The distractions aside, this book is an extremely detailed and informative account of a little-known footnote in the history of the British Empire, in which the incomparable HMS Ark Royal and her embarked air wing played a starring role. Though the actual flight over Belize was flown by Buccaneers of 809 squadron, all the ship's aircraft are profiled in the lead-up to the dramatic long-range mission flown from the Atlantic to the Yucatan peninsula and back. I was particularly impressed with the richness of description of life aboard Ark, which I found very different yet comfortingly similar to life aboard the present-day American carrier I'm assigned to. The maps, cutaway drawings of the Buccaneer and the Phantom, a load of well-captioned pictures, a useful glossary, and an extensive bibliography round out the book to very nice effect.
The pesky nits missed by the editor notwithstanding, I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in carrier aviation.
The distractions aside, this book is an extremely detailed and informative account of a little-known footnote in the history of the British Empire, in which the incomparable HMS Ark Royal and her embarked air wing played a starring role. Though the actual flight over Belize was flown by Buccaneers of 809 squadron, all the ship's aircraft are profiled in the lead-up to the dramatic long-range mission flown from the Atlantic to the Yucatan peninsula and back. I was particularly impressed with the richness of description of life aboard Ark, which I found very different yet comfortingly similar to life aboard the present-day American carrier I'm assigned to. The maps, cutaway drawings of the Buccaneer and the Phantom, a load of well-captioned pictures, a useful glossary, and an extensive bibliography round out the book to very nice effect.
The pesky nits missed by the editor notwithstanding, I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in carrier aviation.
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A good read and accurate book!
2. März 2010
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As an ex-brother-in-law to one of the 892 Squadron consultants to this author and an airline airport manager in Brmuda at the time of the operation I can attest to its accuracy. Perhaps I found it more interesting than most because of my connections,but it is a damn good read and he tells a good story.
J.McGill
Dumfries,Scotland.
J.McGill
Dumfries,Scotland.
1 von 1 Kunden fanden die folgende Rezension hilfreich
Nealry perfect.
21. September 2011
Format:Taschenbuch
I read the Vulcan story and so went for this. I love historical works such as this and liked the novel style feel of the book. I was a little disappointed to find the content a bit thin. There seemed to be a lot of padding and the big sell from the publisher was a bit over the top. However having said that it was still an intriguing look at a little known part of British Naval history. davidm.
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