{"title":"Leo McKinstry","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"cinderella-boys","title":"Cinderella Boys","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo. 7 in the Daily Telegraph Top 50 Best Books of 2023 and a History Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe remarkable story of the unsung RAF wing who rescued Britain from Hitler's U-boats and made Allied victory possible.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn early 1943 Britain was engaged in an epic struggle for survival. As the deadly wolf packs of German U-boats roamed the Atlantic, supply lines and shipping losses fell victim to the carnage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn desperation, Churchill turned to the RAF's maritime wing - an overlooked, underfunded force known as \"The Cinderella Service\". But the ascendancy of the U-boat forced a change in attitude.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProvided with the long-range planes, depth charges, rocket projectiles and radar equipment with which to challenge the enemy. The Cinderella boys provided vital air defence the whole way across the Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe German hunters were now the hunted, and - in a stunning defeat - had fully retreated by the summer of 1943.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe transformation of Coastal Command from a ramshackle outfit into a vast, formidable organisation provided one of the turning points of the war, keeping Britain in the war and opening the way to D-Day in 1944. But they never received the credit they deserved.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBased on a wealth of new sources, including from diaries, log books, official records, archives and interviews, Leo McKinstry shines a new light the courageous pilots, ingenious scientists and political risktakers - many of them outsiders - who defended the freezing Atlantic from Nazi rule.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goldsboro Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47631471345958,"sku":"9781529319361","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0733\/4900\/5606\/files\/ac3cfc8d-b08f-4afa-abb6-34e1291da87d.jpg?v=1707239417"}],"url":"https:\/\/goldsborobooks.pro\/collections\/leo-mckinstry.oembed","provider":"Goldsboro Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}