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Enemy Coast Ahead
First edition
Author
Guy Gibson
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Genre
Autobiography
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Publication date
1946 (Censored) 2003 (Uncensored) 2015 (Ebook)
Media type
Print (Paperback) Ebook
Pages
288
ISBN
978-0-85979-118-2
Enemy Coast Ahead is an autobiographical book recounting the World War II flying career of Wing Commander Guy Gibson VC, DSO, DFC. It covers his time in RAF Bomber Command from the very earliest days of war in 1939 through to 1943.
Gibson wrote the book aged 25 in 1944 whilst off operations. He had by this time completed two full tours, each of 30 operations, with Bomber Command (with 83 and 106 Squadrons), another one as a night-fighter pilot with 29 Squadron and, as leader of the famous Dam Busters raid against the dams of the Ruhr Valley (Operation Chastise) with 617 Squadron in May 1943.
It was first published in book form in 1946, to much critical acclaim and a fully uncensored account released in 2003. The book was serialised in the Sunday Express during the winter of 1944-45, following his death in September 1944, when his Mosquito crashed near Steenbergen in the Netherlands.
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War II. London, Little, Brown. ISBN 0349123403 Gibson, Guy, 2003. EnemyCoastAhead – Uncensored. Manchester, Crecy Publishing. (London, Michael Joseph...
1939–1945. Ian Allan, London, 1984. ISBN 0711013187 Gibson, Guy. EnemyCoastAhead. Bridge Books, Wrexham, 1995. (Editor and introduction) ISBN 1872424503...
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