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The Night the Dams Burst

by David Irving

The RAF's moonlight attack on the Ruhr dams in May 1943, told from both sides: Barnes Wallis's private papers, Bomber Command's own files and the German civil-defence records of the flood. Join the Irving Books list and the new 2026 edition is yours, in EPUB and PDF, within a minute.

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New 2026 edition · 126 pages

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On the night of 16–17 May 1943 nineteen Lancasters of 617 Squadron flew at tree height across occupied Europe to breach the Möhne, Eder and Sorpe dams with a weapon that had never been used in anger. First published in 1973, The Night the Dams Burst reconstructs Operation Chastise from Barnes Wallis’s private papers and diaries, the Air Ministry’s own files, interviews with Bomber Command officers and aircrew, and the German civil-defence records of the flood that followed.

The 2026 edition has been re-set from the author’s text with the original photographs, the losses tables, notes and a new index. It reads in an evening and is a fair introduction to the way David Irving works: from the documents, on both sides of the line.

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