No Moon Tonight

"Each time we sighted the fantastic picture of the Ruhr we felt convinced afresh that to come through it alive was impossible. In the moments before bombing I stood, as hundreds of others stood, my heart booming above the roar of the engines..." A Bomber Command classic. Don Charlwood, a wartime navigator with the Royal Australian Air Force, was posted in the winter of 1942 to 103 Squadron at Elsham Wolds, Lincolnshire. Here he tells the breath-taking true story of a wartime bomber crew facing the hazards of bombing strongly defended targets such as Essen, Dusseldorf and Berlin, and writes sympathetically and understandingly of the hopes and fears of the crews as squadron losses mounted.