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The story of one of the most remarkable and feared British aircraft of the Second World War the de Havilland DH98 Mosquito fighterbomber

Nicknamed the wooden wonder for its balsawood frame the twoman Mosquito excelled in several different roles from reconnaissance to the bombing of sensitive priority targets Following a Mosquito raid on the main Berlin broadcasting station on 30 January 1943 which succeeded in removing Hermann Goering from the airwaves the Luftwaffe chief observed ruefully It makes me furious when I see the Mosquito I turn green and yellow with envy From the summer of that year as RAF Bomber Command intensified its saturationbombing campaign against German cities and industrial centres Mosquitos were used by the RAF Pathfinder Force which marked targets for nighttime bombing to potent and devastating effect

David Prices involving and fastpaced narrative traces the contrasting wartime fortunes of a number of Mosquito crews alongside which the development and operational history of the aeroplane especially with the Pathfinder Force forms a descant to the principal human narrative Like the authors earlier book The Crew Mosquito Men is rich in evocative and technically authoritative accounts of individual missions flown by an aircraft that ranks alongside the Spitfire the Hurricane and the Avro Lancaster as one of the RAFs greatest ever