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Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943

byMax Hastings

In Chastise, Max Hastings presents a historical account centered on the Dambusters Story 1943. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the wider field of history. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning. Historical context and individual experience remain equally important to the book's explanation.

Publisher

Harper

Publication date

2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9780062953636