Sea Strike

Sea Strike

<b>1940. The Allies are losing the continent.<br /><br />A Blenheim Wing of Coastal Command stand ready. </b><br /><br />The Station Commander is obsessed with a promotion for himself. A promotion that can only be won by the air crews he insanely sacrifices despite heavy casualties.<br /><br />The Squadron Commander is wracked by the horrors to which he commits his men. His self-confidence is destroyed and he suffers from an erosion of his own mental and physical stamina as he shares their dangers.<br /><br />The squadron’s pilots, observers and air gunners are weary, dogged and unfailingly brave. They know that an under-strength R.A.F., further depleted daily in battle, is all that stands between Britain and defeat.<br /><br />They back up Fighter Command by patrolling the Dunkirk beaches, doing a job for which bombers were never intended.<br /><br />They share Bomber Command’s task of attacking heavily defended land targets<br /><br />They strike against enemy ships and hunt U-boats<br /><br />In <em>Sea Strike</em> Bickers provides a fictional tribute, to the little-known deeds of Coastal Blenheim crews who did as much to save Britain in 1940 as the famous “Few”.<br /><br /><b>Richard Townshend Bickers</b> 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 <em>Torpedo Attack, My Enemy Came Nigh, Bombing Run</em> and <em>Summer of No Surrender</em>. <br />