Mel Rolfe: 5 books
Flying into Hell
The Bomber Command Offensive as Seen Through the Experiences of Twenty Crews
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2008
Best-selling author Mel Rolfe brings the reader vivid real-life stories of bomber command at war with his new book Flying into Hell. Following the success of his two previous books for Grub Street, To Hell and Back, and Hell on Earth this contains more vivid stories of wartime experiences. Thoroughly...
Gunning for the Enemy
Wallace McIntosh DFC and BAR, DFM
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2003
When the Bank of Scotland recently carried out a survey asking people to name Great Scots, 'Wallace McIntosh - War Hero' was chosen among such illustrious names as John Logie Baird, David Livingstone and Robert Louis Stevenson.
Born into grinding poverty, McIntosh was a few days old when given...
Hell on Earth
Dramatic First Hand Experiences of Bomber Command at War
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
A collection of 20 true stories of bravery, survival, and good and bad luck, involving bomber command during World War II.
The following extracts illustrate the drama in this book.
‘It is believed that when Dacey realised the aircraft was on fire he grabbed an extinguisher, hurried...
To Hell and Back: True Life Experiences of Bomber Command at War
True Life Experiences of Bomber Command at War
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
Classic stories of gallantry in World War Two. A new edition of Mel Rolfe's successful book containing twenty dramatic but true stories of Bomber Command adventures. Some of them defy belief - like the RAF bomb aimer who was blown out of his Liberator over Warsaw at 400ft without a parachute and made...
by Rolfe, Mel
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2004
Three weeks after Stirling air gunner Doug Fry was reported missing over Germany his mother was still clinging to the vain hope that he was alive.Then a neighbour said she had seen him in the cinema just down the road. The airman and his crew had been filmed for a Bomber Command documentary shortly...