Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943. Max Hastings

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Illustrations

      The Möhne, the Eder and the Sorpe.

      Barnes and Molly Wallis in 1925. (Estate of Mary Stopes-Roe)

      The Wallis home in Effingham, Surrey. (Cambridge University Library/MS Vickers)

      Wallis in his study with an assistant. (Cambridge University Library/MS Vickers)

      1940 cartoon showing the Wallis-designed Wellington bomber.

      The scaled-down model of the Möhne at Nant-y-Gro in Powys, eight minutes after a test explosion in 1942. (The National Archives/AVIA 10/369)

      Recording apparatus attached to scale-model dam at Watford. (The National Archives/DSIR 27/43)

      Test explosion at Nant-y-Gro. (The National Archives/AVIA 10/369)

      Cherwell, Portal, Pound and Churchill watching a display of anti-aircraft gunnery, June 1941. (Imperial War Museum/H 10306)

Air Vice Marshal the Hon. R.A. Cochrane. (Imperial War Museum/CH 14564); Sir Charles Craven. (Cambridge University Library/MS Vickers); Sir Norman Bottomley. (National Portrait Gallery, London/Howard Coster); Arthur Collins; Air Marshal Sir John Linnell. (Imperial War Museum/CM 5259); Gp. Capt. F. W. Winterbotham. (Barry James Gilmore/Fairfax Media/Getty Images)

      Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris. (Imperial War Museum/CH 13020)

      Harris with his wife Jill and daughter Jackie. (Leonard McCombe/Picture Post/Getty Images)

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