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Indlæser... A Bucket of Sunshine: Life on a Cold War Canberra Squadron (udgave 2012)af Brooke (Forfatter)
Work InformationA Bucket of Sunshine: Life on a Cold War Canberra Squadron af Mike Brooke
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A Bucket of Sunshine - a term coined by RAF aircrew for the nuclear bomb that their aircraft would be armed with - is a first-hand insight into life in the mid-1960s on a RAF Canberra nuclear-armed squadron in West Germany, on the frontline in the Cold War.The English-Electric Canberra was a first-generation jet-powered light bomber manufactured in large numbers in the 1950s. The Canberra B(I)8, low-level interdictor version was used by RAF Germany squadrons at the height of the Cold War. Mike Brooke describes not only the technical aspect of the aircraft and its nuclear and conventional roles and weapons, but also the low-level flying that went with the job of being ready to go to war at less than three minutes' notice. Brooke tells his story warts and all, with many amusing overtones, in what was an extremely serious business when the world was standing on the brink of nuclear conflict. No library descriptions found. |
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There are plenty of books around on V bombers, even some on the single-seaters of the Cold War - but the Canberra in the middle often gets overlooked. In particular the B(I)8 night Interdictor variant, with its distinctive offset cockpit. This book helps to fill that gap. Despite that, it's very much a personal history, not an engineering or strategic one.
The writing is good. Short chapters hop between roles and locations, so it flows well and is an easy read. As an autobiog, it begins with the usual recruitment and training chapters. I would have liked more of a career slant, and a thicker book, into Brooke's career afterwards too, as he became a test pilot and that's always a good read. If he ever writes another volume, I'd happily read that. (