Battle Climb

Battle Climb

Longley Base, 1940.<br /><br />Three squadrons - two Hurricane and one Spitfire - are recovering at RAF Longley from the battles of the British retreat from France. <br /><br />Pilots such as Officer Roy Taylor spend their days waiting for the telephone to ring and for someone to shout 'Scramble!'. <br /><br />But they will not be kept waiting for long.<br /><br />The enemy is preparing for a special mission, one that will hurt the Tommies close to home.<br /><br />In the eyes of the enemy, the British did not have the planes to replace those destroyed, or the pilots to take the place of those killed, in battle.<br /><br />It was time to deliver a final crushing blow.<br /><br />Major Sepp von Hondorf delivers the orders: a hit-and-run raid, concentrating on the aerodromes and the radar stations on the South-East of England. <br /><br />Their target: the Longley base. Their weapon: the deadly Ju 87 Stake dive-bomber.<br /><br />But in the ensuing battles between the Allies and the Enemies, Officer Taylor is shot down, landing in occupied France.<br /><br />His fellow pilots must set out to find and retrieve their lost friend.<br /><br />Can the Spitfire squadron exact vengeance against the Stuka men before they are hit once more?<br /><br />It will be a dangerous mission - one that will teach them the truth meaning of total war.<br /><br />'Battle Climb' is an action-packed military thriller set during the build-up to the German invasion of England, and told with authentic and well-researched detail.<br /><br />Praise for Richard Townshend Bickers: <br /><br />'A thrilling page turner.' - Tom Kasey, best-selling author of 'Trade Off'. <br /><br />Richard Townshend Bickers volunteered for the RAF on the outbreak of the second world war and served, with a Permanent Commission, for eighteen years. He wrote a range of military fiction and non-fiction books, including ‘Torpedo Attack’, ‘My Enemy Came Nigh’, ‘Bombing Run’ and ‘Summer of No Surrender’. <br /><br />Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent publisher of digital books.<br />