Chastise: the dambusters story 1943. Max Hastings. 2019.

Operation Chastise was one of the most extraordinary episodes of the Second World War. It has also become one of the most misunderstood.

Max Hastings tells the griping story of the Dambusters raid from the invention of the bouncing bomb to the moonlit cockpits of young pilots flying at treetop height across occupied Europe and through lethal enemy fire. Hastings also challenges what we think we know about the Dambusters, and investigates the difficult truths that are so often left out of the legend.