Dam Buster Audiobook Libro.fm

A stunningly good and surely definitive biography of one of the most fascinating British engineers ever to have lived JAMES HOLLAND

Barnes Wallis is remembered for contributions to aviation that spanned most of the 20th century from airships at its start to reusable spacecraft near the end In the years between he pioneered new kinds of aircraft structure bombs to alter the way in which wars are fought and aeroplanes that could change shape in flight Later work extended to radio telescopy prosthetic limbs and plans for a fleet of highspeed cargo submarines to travel the worlds oceans in silence

For all his fame little is known about the man himself Dam Buster draws on family records to reveal someone thick with contradictions a Victorian who in his imagination ranged far into the 21st century a romantic for whom nostalgic pastoral and advanced technology went together an unassuming man who kept a close eye on his legacy Wallis was last in a line of engineers who combined handson experience with searching vision Richard Morris sets out to locate him in Britains grand narrative