Signed The Night the Dams Burst

Name: Signed The Night the Dams Burst
Brand: Irving Books
SKU: signed-the-night-the-dams-burst-si-1-ndb
Price: 350.00 USD
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Author: David Irving

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Edition: Signed hardcover
Personal mark: Handwritten signature by David Irving
Photographs: The actual copy offered
Condition: Jacketed hardback of the Focal Point reissue, jacket clean as photographed, full signature in ink at the head of the title page.
Provenance: Offered from the Irving Books archive. Earlier ownership is not recorded here.
Copy reference: SI-1-NDB

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📖 144 pages

A single signed hardcover copy of The Night the Dams Burst. Due to David's health, he is no longer able to sign books, and only a very limited number of signed books can now be offered. Dispatched by Irving Books.

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Signed The Night the Dams Burst

Reference: SI-1-NDB

Operation Chastise, 16–17 May 1943: a specially modified Lancaster released one cylindrical Upkeep mine at about 60 feet and roughly 220 mph. Backspin carried it past the torpedo nets; it then sank against the upstream face and detonated below the surface. Sequence compressed; distances and the number of skips varied.

Cutaway diagram showing an Upkeep mine backspinning and skipping across the reservoir before sinking beside the dam and detonating underwater — Operation Chastise, 16–17 May 1943: a specially modified Lancaster released one cylindrical Upkeep mine at about 60 feet and roughly 220 mph. Backspin carried it past the torpedo nets; it then sank against the upstream face and detonated below the surface. Sequence compressed; distances and the number of skips varied.

This listing is for one signed hardcover copy of The Night the Dams Burst by David Irving.

Fulfilment: Dispatched by Irving Books.

About the Book

The Night the Dams Burst documents Operation Chastise, the RAF moonlight attack on Germany's Ruhr dams in May 1943, from both British and German perspectives.

The book draws on RAF records, German civil defence archives, interviews with British aircrew and German survivors, and material relating to Barnes Wallis and the bouncing bomb.

Due to David's health, he is no longer able to sign books. We have only a very limited number of signed books that we are able to offer, and each signed listing is sold individually.

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Signed by the author, David Irving
Hardcover edition
Collector copy dispatched by Irving Books
The photographs shown are of this signed copy

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Condition: Jacketed hardback of the Focal Point reissue, jacket clean as photographed, full signature in ink at the head of the title page. Described from the listing photographs rather than a trade grade; ask us for any further views before you buy.

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David Irving

David Irving is a renowned British historian and author of over 30 books. Known for his meticulous primary source research, he has spent decades in archives across the globe, unearthing diaries, documents, and first-hand accounts that have reshaped our understanding of the Second World War and its key figures.

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