Luck and a Lancaster - Airlife Classics Author:Harry Yates This book takes you, raid by raid, through the author's tour of operational duty over the last five months of 1944. It is a bomber pilot's story, but it is also about the grinding operational pressure, the brotherhood of the crew and fears of injury and death. It is about a squadron of Bomber Command that bore a barely-equaled burden in operatio... more »nal effort and losses. It is about young airmen the author knew, who lived and too often died amid the turmoil in enemy skies.« less