GREEN BALLS — The Adventures of a Night Bomber
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Green Balls: The Adventures of a Night Bomber is a First World War memoir originally published in 1919, recounting night bombing operations of the Royal Naval Air Service. Written shortly after the war, it offers an immediate and vivid account of early aerial warfare, describing primitive aircraft, hazardous night raids, anti-aircraft fire, and the pioneering era of strategic bombing.
Characteristics
| ISBN | ISBN-10: 0947898328 ISBN-13: 978-0947898328 |
| Book cover finish(es) | Perfect paperback |
| Condition | Used - Very Good |
| Author(s) | Paul Bewsher |
| Publisher | Greenhill Books, Lionel Leventhal Ltd. |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Published date | First published in 1919 ! 1986 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Size | 14 x 21.5 x 2.5 cm |
| Categorie(s) | • AVIATION MILITAIRE • PREMIÈRE GUERRE MONDIALE • BIOGRAPHIES |
Description
When Paul Bewsher arrived at the Handley-Page aerodrome he was, as he writes in this atmospheric book, "to have the good fortune to be attached to a pioneering branch of the Air Service, and that, instead of going to a cut-and-dried task, I was to assist in operations which had been untried and were entirely experimental."
"Now I was to be the first Observer on the huge night-bombers, which were to prove of such tremendous value. I found the squadron to be as a new-born babe, blinking at the light of day. In a couple of vast green hangars slept two gigantic machines. The skeleton of a third hangar reared its wooden lattice-work against the deep August sky, and everywhere lay heaps of material and stores."
"Green Balls" is a lyrical, evocative descriptive account of an Observer flying Handley-Page's with the RNAS. Among the memorable raids in which Bewsher participated was one on a bridge over the River Meuse, the longest night flight on a target at that time, some 150 miles behind enemy lines, and a dramatic raid in April 1918 on Zeebruge.
Note pédagogique
Le livre concerne les opérations de bombardement de la Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) pendant la Première Guerre mondiale (pas la RAF Bomber Command (WWII)). La RAF a été créée en avril 1918, par fusion du RFC et du RNAS.