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  Len Deighton: Bomber
The idea of Bomber is to describe a twenty-four hours in the air war towards the end of the Second World War, without demonising the Germans or idolising the British.
Part of the reason for the ponderousness of Bomber is the literary weight of what Deighton is trying to do - conveying the brutality of war, the waste of a generation of young men, while making his portrayal evenhanded with the reader caring for people on both sides.
Bomber is far less successful as a work of fiction, and remains the nearest to unreadable of any of Deighton's novels.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Academy/6422/rev1224.html   (607 words)

  
  Bomber (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bomber is a 1970 historical fiction novel by Len Deighton.
Bomber is rock climbing slang for a totally secure anchor used for safety, otherwise known as a bomb-proof anchor.
A bomber jacket is a jacket made of leather or sheepskin with a fleece collar, of similar design to the jackets worn by bomber flight crew in World War II.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bomber_(disambiguation)   (272 words)

  
 RAF History - Bomber Command 60th Anniversary
This was a special raid, which Bomber Command was ordered to carry out against the German research establishment on the Baltic coast where V-2 and V-1 rockets were being built and tested.
There were three aiming points - the scientists and workers living quarters, the rocket factory and the experimental station - and the Pathfinders employed a special plan with crews designated as shifters, who attempted to move the marking from one part of the target to another as the raid progressed.
Two schrage Musik aircraft found the bomber stream flying home from Peenemunde and are believed to have shot down 6 of the bombers lost on the raid.
www.raf.mod.uk /bombercommand/peenemunde.html   (510 words)

  
 Tu-16 BADGER (TUPOLEV) - Russian and Soviet Nuclear Forces
Intended to replace the propeller-driven TU-4, the greatest challenge during development was to doubling the speed to improve survivability in the face of enemy fighters.
The bomber was supposed to have a speed of Mach 0.9-0.95 with a range and payload were comparable to the TU-4.
After the bomber's operational characteristics were coordinated with the military, the government officially approved the development of the "82" aircraft in 1948.
www.fas.org /nuke/guide/russia/bomber/tu-16.htm   (2075 words)

  
 Horrendous Stakes
The bomber strode briskly toward the uniformed policemen who were standing at the entrance of an enormous eight-story warehouse.
The bomber moved on, quick paced, not caring to look at the effigies that adorned the walls of the rather lavish warehouse.
The bomber was as good in bombs and explosives as he was in the techniques of killing.
pages.prodigy.net /neb11/_import/pages.prodigy.net/neb11/index4.html   (16020 words)

  
 RDF Media | History | Bomber Crew   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bomber Crew looks beyond the controversy surrounding Arthur 'Bomber' Harris to salute the men of Bomber Command, and their war.
Moving from a single-engine trainer, to a twin-engine light bomber, to a genuine Second World War heavy bomber, the American B-17 Flying Fortress, our 21st Century crew get the chance to prove their skills at piloting, navigating, and bomb-aiming, as well as gunnery.
Their grandfathers, like thousands of other Bomber Command airmen, made an extraordinary contribution to the war effort in the face of terrible odds.
www.rdfmedia.com /history/Bombercrew.asp   (439 words)

  
 B2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Gallery
Stealth bombers being sent to Gulf The B2 Bomber Wing began practising on Tuesday for the deployment to the British Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia and an airbase at Fairford in England, said a commander of the bomb wing.
Clouds on a B2 Bomber This is a really cool description of the condensation pattern captured on an air force photograph of the B2 completing a mission over the Pacific Ocean.
Bomber Modernization Statement of The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology Paul G. Kaminski Before the National Security Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations on Bomber Modernization (May 17, 1995).
www.bugimus.com /stealth/stealth.html   (1891 words)

  
 Commonweal: Bomber's Law. - book reviews
This insight has bred countless "literary" detective novels; and in France (where the roman policier has always been taken more seriously) it influenced the development of the nouveau roman in the 1960s.
The detective novel is based, after all, on violence, and rooted in a Manichean world-order; pursuers and pursued.
Bomber's Law is the work of a writer who has the power to stretch his genre to its limits, but who may never be able to break out of it.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1252/is_n6_v121/ai_14960822   (841 words)

  
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L.D. With "Bomber", by taking just a twenty four hour period I could tell the whole story that I wanted to - which was just one raid from the moment it was planned to the moment that the raid was over and the crews went back to bed again.
Of course the same to a lesser extent when I was talking to the RAF people for "Bomber", though it was a very different Air Force in 1943.
A chap wrote to me and said "Did you know that 'Bomber' was a very good basis for a wargame?" He didn't mean commercially but that it could be adapted for wargaming because of the gun shooting and the night fighter and so on.
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 Edwards Gallery Bomber Aircraft   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
By the time of its first flight, however, the novel jet bomber had been overtaken by more advanced designs already on the drawing board, and it was soon relegated to the role of a technology demonstrator.
A competition was begun in 1944 for the first jet bomber to be used by the postwar air force.
The new bomber was flown to Edwards AFB on its first flight on April 2, 1947, but even by then the design had become obsolescent.
www.edwards.af.mil /gallery/html_pgs/bomber3.htm   (446 words)

  
 The Bomber Complex, Inc. - Restaurant, Catering, and B-17G Restoration Project
The Bomber family is dedicated to the preservation of this "flying Fortress" christened the "Lacey Lady".
Descendants of Oregon pioneers-founders of the Bomber, Milwaukie Oregon's World-famous landmark.
The Bomber Crew: The incredible success of the Bomber Gas Station was due largely to the commitment of Art Lacey and his family to provide a superior service to their customers.
www.thebomber.com /history.asp   (1803 words)

  
 Bombshell
The novel is as much about telling, and about learning to be told, as it is about serial bombing and a hatred of technological civilization.
The transactions of art are as much a subject of this novel as are the rituals and dangers of girlhood.
Wieland's novel suggests that the legacy of The Bomb detonated on July 16, 1945, is this mad professor's string of bombings, fifty years later.
www.tamu.edu /upress/BOOKS/2001/weiland.htm   (501 words)

  
 Run the Risk: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Alex is a single mom whose feisty teenage daughter, Lacy, is captured by the bomber early on and used as bait to lead partners Alex and Harrison from one gruesome killing to the next.
In this brilliant novel, he gives us a heroine who faces a challenge no one can ever be completely prepared for and a story as urgently and viscerally told as any in recent memory.
Scott Frost makes his formal novel debut with a scorchingly fascinating, roller coaster ride of a story set against the background of Pasadena, California during the time in which all eyes are on the sunny and elegant vestige of yesteryear - the New Year's Day Rose Parade.
www.x8a.net /us-reviewed/0399152482.html   (1761 words)

  
 B2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Gallery
Stealth bombers being sent to Gulf The B2 Bomber Wing began practising on Tuesday for the deployment to the British Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia and an airbase at Fairford in England, said a commander of the bomb wing.
Clouds on a B2 Bomber This is a really cool description of the condensation pattern captured on an air force photograph of the B2 completing a mission over the Pacific Ocean.
Bomber Modernization Statement of The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology Paul G. Kaminski Before the National Security Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropriations on Bomber Modernization (May 17, 1995).
bugimus.com /stealth/stealth.html   (2080 words)

  
 SF fantasy alternative reality suicide bomber novel booksonline
Motivated by religious fanaticism, the terrorists believe that a campaign of suicide bombing is what is needed to awaken to consciousness the unknown messiah, the one whose identity is not known by anyone, not even by himself.
The mission of the suicide bombers, then, is to wake the sleepwalking messiah to self-consciousness: that is to say, to find and wake the dreamer.
Hugh Cook is the author of the science fiction novel THE SHIFT and the ten-volume sword-and-sorcery series CHRONICLES OF AN AGE OF DARKNESS.
books-online.sushilotus.com /dreamer   (522 words)

  
 The Unabomber
But the bomber really became a media star in 1995 when he went public, as it were, with a series of notes to the media.
The bomber not only made his bombs out of wood, in one case sending a cherry twig with his package, but in 1980 went a bomb to the aforementioned airline executive Mr.
That novel Ice Brothers, Getman explains, takes place during World War II and is set on a patrol boat named Valkyrie, a reference to the proto-Nazi composer Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle, an epic opera based on the same Teutonic myths that later formed an integral part of Hitler's mystical philosophy.
www.carpenoctem.tv /cons/unabomber.html   (3367 words)

  
 International Noir Fiction: Swedish noir(ish) crime fiction: Liza Marklund
The Bomber was released first, around the turn of the millennium (a bit before in the original language).
Studio 6 is a "prequel," providing the background for Annika's criminal past, her employment at Kvällspressen, and her rise to the peak of her profession.
Prime Time has some elements typical of the mystery genre, more than noir (13 people at a country house, one dies and the rest are suspects--you know the drill; plus there's a murder at the beginning and no real threat to anyone in the rest of the plot).
internationalnoir.blogspot.com /2007/04/swedish-noirish-crime-fiction-liza.html   (724 words)

  
 B-24 Liberator the other hesvy bomber   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
However, standard operational procedure in actual combat operations with the 8th and 15th Air Force in Europe called for 155 miles per hour indicated, 25000 feet altitude with a bomb load of 5500 pounds and a maximum total range of 1200 miles.
In the Pacific, Liberators gradually replaced the B-17 in the heavy bomber role, largely because of the B-24's greater range.
During the early part of the war, the B-24 and PB4Y were the only American heavy bombers covering the seas from Alaska to India.
www.b17sam.com /B24.html   (560 words)

  
 Kenston High School ~ Bomber Reader Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
I would heartily recommend this novel to any thriller enthusiast, but with the crude language and violently depicted scenes, I strongly adviste that The Carrier is not for the faint of heart.
Although at times humorous, the bumbling characters fumble their way through "dramatic" scenes that take away from the novel, not add to it, and have as much development as an un-used roll of film.
Although the novel is highly unrealistic, it effectively portrays the dangers that scientists face today and poses a handful of mind-boggling questions, which I found to be fascinating.
www.kenston.k12.oh.us /khs/library/bomber_reader_page.htm   (3492 words)

  
 Bomber's Law: A Novel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Bomber's Law: A Novel Review: Maybe it's me. I thought The Friends of Eddie Coyle was a masterly novel, but twenty years later, this one drove me nuts.
Bomber's Law: A Novel Review: George V. Higgins has earned his place as the Balzac of Boston, describing through the use of dialogue various low-level crooks, pols, lawyers, and other low life.
Bomber's Law: A Novel Review: The dialogue went all over the place but in the in, I liked it.
www.textkit.com /0_0805023291.html   (136 words)

  
 Urban Dictionary: homicide bomber
Another name for a suicide bomber, coined by Fox News in their quest to become more "fair and balanced." Problem is, homicide bomber is redundant because any idiot who detonatnes any bomb that kills someone, regardless of if it is strapped to his/her body or not, is considered a homicide.
For example, a "suicide bomber" (the phrase that "homicide bomber" was invented to displace) delivers the bomb by killing himself or herself while killing others.
Recent media variation on the term suicide bomber to reflect the fact that bombers often kill other people besides his/herself in the act of detonation.
urbandictionary.com /define.php?term=homicide+bomber&...   (406 words)

  
 Double Eagle (A Warhammer 40,000 Novel): Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He was saved by one of the Ghosts in another novel, and feels he is on borrowed time, that he should be dead.
This particular novel however manages to be a great WH 40K novel without alienating the uninitiated.
Having read all of Dan Abnett's WH 40K novels in print, I believe this is one of the most engaging.
www.mobilewebsystems.us /stuff-1844160890.html   (1317 words)

  
 Blood on the Tongue : A Crime Novel: Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
Best of all are the interrelationships, particularly the wonderful tension that thrums the air between Fry and Cooper as respect and admiration war with suspicion and distrust to produce an almost erotic attraction.
Then there's persistent Canadian Alison Morrissey, seeking answers about her grandfather, who vanished after the RAF bomber he was piloting crashed in the Peak District in 1945.
In the winter of 1945, a Royal Air Force bomber crashed on the same Irontongue Hill where Marie Tennent's body was found, killing everyone except pilot Danny McTeague, who disappeared with a large sum of money.
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 CBBC Newsround | UK | Teen bomber novel is best-seller
A children's novel about a mixed-race teenage girl who's trained to be a suicide bomber has become a UK best-seller.
Checkmate is the final part of a trilogy of novels that looks at issues of race and inequality.
The three novels are set in a fictional world occupied by a ruling class of fl people called Crosses and a lower class of white people called Noughts.
news.bbc.co.uk /cbbcnews/hi/newsid_4730000/newsid_4738200/4738275.stm   (233 words)

  
 Destiny's Child - 91st BG Stories
Bomber Pilot, a realistic and touching story, a love story, skillfully evokes atmosphere of London in 1943, as the stalwart Brits maintain a cheery bravado while bombs bring death and destruction to their magnificent city.
In Bomber Pilot, the author, a former pilot in the USAF, draws on his own experience to create an original novel that is heart felt and moving.
The main character of Bomber Pilot, Lieutenant Bill Weyland achieves his goal in joining the courageous people of England in their struggle against Hitler.
www.91stbombgroup.com /bomberpilot.html   (280 words)

  
 Teen Suicide Bomber Is Bestseller
Young fans of a novel about a teenage suicide bomber have turned the book into one of this year's publishing successes.
The novel, the third in a series, focuses on a society split into two camps - the haves, or Crosses, and the have-nots or Noughts.
Callie Rose, the books heroine, trains to become a suicide bomber - her mission to blow up the country's prime minister on her sixteenth birthday.
www.raisingkids.co.uk /todaysnews/news_030805_03.asp   (169 words)

  
 Department of French
The novel gives a human face to terrorism through the character of a young Arab American man in search of spiritual and cultural identity.
With extensive quotations from the Koran, it exposes the terrifying logic of the suicide bomber.
In over a dozen plays, three novels, and numerous conferences and workshops, Benaïssa confronts the world of political violence and religious intolerance by presenting both sides of complex and controversial topics such as terrorism, torture, Arab-Israeli relations, and the wearing of the veil.
www.grinnell.edu /academic/french/announcements/benaissa   (397 words)

  
 Milestone Aviation Books J
Storm tossed novel set in 1939 and a fateful flying boat flight to Bermuda.
Novel relating to the last flight of an RAF bomber over Germany on the night of June 31st, 1943.
Novel concerning the test flight of a new bomber.
www.milestonebooks.co.uk /Aviation/av-j.htm   (189 words)

  
 Hart's War by John Katzenbach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Year after year the novels of John Katzenbach have earned acclaim from across the country.
Now, Katzenbach has written his most powerful novel yet--an unforgettable courtroom drama of heroism and sacrifice, honor and betrayal that ignites within the explosive confines of a World War II prisoner of war camp.
John Katzenbach has written six previous novels: the Edgar Award-nominated In the Heat of the Summer, which was adapted for the screen as The Mean Season; the New York Times bestseller The Traveler; Day of Reckoning; Just Cause, which was also made into a movie; The Shadow Man (another Edgar nominee), and State of Mind.
www.randomhouse.com /BB/promos/hartswar   (550 words)

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