Len Deighton's bomber – Historians

Len Deighton's Bomber, both the original novel and the 1995 Radio 4 adaptation, had a huge impact on readers and listeners of The Last Flight of O Orange for decades. But how did this impact affect Bomber Command's opinion and did Len get it right? Dr Dan Ellin, archivist and historian of the International Bomber Command Center's digital archives, and James Jefferies, doctoral student and lecturer at the University of Essex, join me to discuss Bomber's place in the histography of Bomber Command.

Read Dan's LMF article, A 'Lack of Moral Fibre' in Royal Air Force Bomber Command and Popular Culture, here: https://bjmh.gold.ac.uk/article/view/1425/1538
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