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Night Raiders
(2015)(The seventh book in the World War One Aviation Thrillers series)
A novel by Richard Townshend Bickers
France, 1918.
The British Royal Flying Corps are sending their bombers deep into Germany, via bases in France, to target enemy railways and factories.
Major Eric Yardley and his team are experimenting with an innovative, yet highly dangerous, mission. Night bombing.
Facing navigation difficulties, unpredictable weather and German reinforcements, Yardley must prove the new technique can work.
Then he is shot down behind enemy lines and hunted...
In Germany, Ilse Nauroth spends all her days maintaining the family homestead while dreaming of a greater life. Until, that is, the night bombing starts...and strikes fear into the residents of her town.
Saved from a brutal attack by the stranded bomber pilot, an unlikely romance begins.
Can Ilse hide Yardley from the searching German troops?
Can Yardley return to his squadron without endangering Ilse?
And can they have a future together after the war?
"Night Raiders" is an extraordinary World War One novel about a British bomber pilot and a young German woman brought together by war.
Praise for Richard Townshend Bickers:
'A valuable history of the air war that began it all ... by an ex-flyer of the Second World War who has a genuine feeling for the feats of his predecessors' - THE BIRMINGHAM POST
'His sympathy with the fighting man (and woman) shines out of every page' - LIVERPOOL DAILY POST
Richard Townshend Bickers volunteered for the RAF on the outbreak of the second world war and served, with a Permanent Commission, for eighteen years. He wrote a range of military fiction and non-fiction books, including 'Torpedo Attack', 'My Enemy Came Nigh', 'Bombing Run' and 'Summer of No Surrender'.
Genre: Historical
The British Royal Flying Corps are sending their bombers deep into Germany, via bases in France, to target enemy railways and factories.
Major Eric Yardley and his team are experimenting with an innovative, yet highly dangerous, mission. Night bombing.
Facing navigation difficulties, unpredictable weather and German reinforcements, Yardley must prove the new technique can work.
Then he is shot down behind enemy lines and hunted...
In Germany, Ilse Nauroth spends all her days maintaining the family homestead while dreaming of a greater life. Until, that is, the night bombing starts...and strikes fear into the residents of her town.
Saved from a brutal attack by the stranded bomber pilot, an unlikely romance begins.
Can Ilse hide Yardley from the searching German troops?
Can Yardley return to his squadron without endangering Ilse?
And can they have a future together after the war?
"Night Raiders" is an extraordinary World War One novel about a British bomber pilot and a young German woman brought together by war.
Praise for Richard Townshend Bickers:
'A valuable history of the air war that began it all ... by an ex-flyer of the Second World War who has a genuine feeling for the feats of his predecessors' - THE BIRMINGHAM POST
'His sympathy with the fighting man (and woman) shines out of every page' - LIVERPOOL DAILY POST
Richard Townshend Bickers volunteered for the RAF on the outbreak of the second world war and served, with a Permanent Commission, for eighteen years. He wrote a range of military fiction and non-fiction books, including 'Torpedo Attack', 'My Enemy Came Nigh', 'Bombing Run' and 'Summer of No Surrender'.
Genre: Historical
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