Night Fighter

by C.F. Rawnsley, Robert Wright, Illustrated by Cover Art Rawnsley, C. F.

Book Overview

Once the day fighters had saved Britain from invasion, it fell to the night fighters to save her cities from destruction. At the beginning, interception by night proved virtually impossible,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• ISBN: B0066QZJIK
• Release Date: January 1968
• Publisher: Ballantine nd edition January
• Length: 319 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding World War Two non-fiction

As a boy I read Night Fighter and was enthralled with it as a sort of real life Biggles adventure. In my twenties, as a pilot, I read it and was fascinated by the description of wartime aircraft and the constant struggle between measure and counter-measure in radar technology and aerial tactics over Britain. In my late thirties I picked it up again and discovered its human dimensions: its frank yet compelling account of the experience of being engaged in a total war where he and those like him had little real expectation of survival. Now, as an author, I'm deeply impressed with its language and composition, and of how it could be so satisfying a read to me on so many levels. By far my favorite WWII book.

The best of all from my dad's WWII bookshelf.

When I was growing up, I read all of the World War II "I was there!" paperbacks that filled a six foot long shelf in my parents' bedroom.This one was the best of them all.

An excellent, somewhat technical, read. 5 stars not enuf

From his trip through pre-war Germany, until he 'graduates' from flying intercepts, Jimmy Rawnsley puts you in the cockpit with one of the RAF's finest pilots, John Cunningham ( later, Sir John).Beginning with the earliest versions of the British Airborne Intercept Radars, through the technological innovations of the weapon, this book puts you in the cockpit with a well trained aircrew. It's one of my favorite reads.