{"product_id":"the-hurricats-ralph-barker-2000-hardback","title":"The Hurricats: Ralph Barker 2000 hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Raplh Barker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Tempus\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePagination: 160\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Hardback + DJ\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good, clipped, Inscriptions inside covers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the Battle of Britain won, Winston Churchill and his military chiefs faced an even more fearsome challenge in the Battle of the Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThwarted in his plans to invade, Hitler decided he would starve Britain into submission instead. Operating in conjunction with U-Boats, long-range Condor aircraft manned by élite German airmen attacked Allied ships far beyond the range of any land-based RAF fighters, with devastating results.To counter the Luftwaffe threat, men from the RAF and Fleet Air Arm were asked to volunteer to be catapulted from the foredecks of merchant ships in specially modified Hawker Hurricanes. But with nowhere to land afterwards, it was a one-way mission.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf the British fighter pilots survived combat, they would have no option but to bail out into the North Atlantic and hope they were picked up by the one of the convoy escorts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSurvival was anything but certain ...\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tempus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67668228047147,"sku":"12830","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1022\/1289\/5019\/files\/the-hurricats-ralph-barker-2000-hardback_12830_main_original.jpg?v=1791227909","url":"https:\/\/militaryhistorybooks.com\/products\/the-hurricats-ralph-barker-2000-hardback","provider":"Military History Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}