With the Battle of Britain won, Winston Churchill and his military chiefs now faced an even more fearsome challenge in the Battle of the Atlantic.
Thwarted in his plans to invade, Hitler decided instead that he would starve Britain into submission. Operating in conjunction with U-Boats, long-range Condor aircraft attacked allied shipping far beyond the range of any land-based fighters.
To counter the Luftwaffe threat, RAF and Fleet Air Arm volunteers to be catapulted from merchant ships in specially modified Hawker Hurricanes. With nowhere to land it was a one-way mission.
If the British fighter pilots survived combat, they had no option but to bail out or ditch in the North Atlantic and hope they would be picked up by the one of the convoy escorts.
Survival was anything but certain ...
- ISBN10 0722114249
- ISBN13 9780722114247
- Publish Date 22 November 1979
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 October 2004
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
- Imprint Sphere
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English