Victory

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  • The
  • definitive
  • account
  • of
  • the
  • New
  • Zealand
  • air
  • crews'
  • heroic
  • and
  • often
  • deadly
  • role
  • in
  • the
  • dramatic
  • and
  • dangerous
  • invasion
  • of
  • Europe
  • in
  • 1944
  • to
  • the
  • fall
  • of
  • Berlin
  • the
  • folliwng
  • year. 'Just
  • another
  • name,
  • another
  • place,
  • another
  • time
  • for
  • dying.'
  • From
  • hunting
  • U-boats
  • over
  • the
  • heaving
  • waters
  • of
  • the
  • cold
  • Atlantic
  • to
  • dropping
  • supplies
  • for
  • the
  • Resistance
  • and
  • towing
  • the
  • gliders
  • carrying
  • paratroopers
  • and
  • weapons
  • at
  • Normandy,
  • Arnhem
  • and
  • the
  • Rhine
  • crossing,
  • the
  • New
  • Zealand
  • airmen
  • who
  • fought
  • with
  • the
  • RAF
  • played
  • an
  • extraordinary
  • role
  • in
  • the
  • final
  • chapters
  • of
  • World
  • War
  • II.
  • In
  • Victory,
  • bestselling
  • author
  • Max
  • Lambert
  • shares
  • the
  • vivid,
  • inspiring
  • and
  • previously
  • unpublished
  • stories
  • of
  • those
  • young
  • fliers
  • -
  • some
  • still
  • teenagers
  • -
  • who
  • lived
  • and
  • died
  • in
  • the
  • service
  • of
  • their
  • country
  • during
  • the
  • invasion
  • of
  • Normandy
  • in
  • 1944.
  • Commemorating
  • the
  • 70th
  • anniversary
  • of
  • D-Day
  • and
  • the
  • beginning
  • of
  • the
  • end
  • of
  • the
  • war,
  • Victory
  • is
  • both
  • a
  • thrilling
  • account
  • of
  • courage
  • and
  • sacrifice,
  • and
  • a
  • moving
  • tribute
  • to
  • a
  • passing
  • generation
  • of
  • true
  • heroes.
  • PRAISE
  • FOR
  • MAX
  • LAMBERt
  • 'Night
  • After
  • Night
  • is
  • a
  • classic'
  • -
  • tom
  • Empson,
  • former
  • Mosquito
  • pilot
  • 'A
  • remarkable
  • book'
  • -
  • Matthew
  • Wright
  • (reviewing
  • Day
  • After
  • Day),
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