The Eighth Passenger: A Flight Of Recollection (SIGNED) And Discovery
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Tape around edges of jacket.
At twenty years old, Miles Tripp climbed aboard a Lancaster bomber and flew into the terrifying darkness of wartime Europe — The Eighth Passenger is the raw, unflinching memoir of a young RAF bomb aimer who survived against extraordinary odds. Set against the backdrop of World War II's brutal aerial campaign, this account chronicles Tripp's thirty operations over occupied Europe, charting the psychological and physical toll of combat flying with rare candour and emotional depth. The narrative captures not just the thunder of anti-aircraft fire and the camaraderie of a seven-man crew, but also the haunting silence of those who never returned. Tripp writes with the precision of a trained legal mind — he was a solicitor by profession — and the sensitivity of a natural storyteller, producing a memoir that stands among the finest personal accounts of Bomber Command to emerge from the Second World War. Regarded as a classic of wartime literature, the book raises profound questions about duty, survival guilt, and the psychological wounds that linger long after the armistice — leaving the reader to wonder whether any of the eight passengers truly came home unchanged.
Author: Miles Tripp
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, Heinemann, London
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed with inscription
Condition remarks: Tape around edges of jacket.
At twenty years old, Miles Tripp climbed aboard a Lancaster bomber and flew into the terrifying darkness of wartime Europe — The Eighth Passenger is the raw, unflinching memoir of a young RAF bomb aimer who survived against extraordinary odds. Set against the backdrop of World War II's brutal aerial campaign, this account chronicles Tripp's thirty operations over occupied Europe, charting the psychological and physical toll of combat flying with rare candour and emotional depth. The narrative captures not just the thunder of anti-aircraft fire and the camaraderie of a seven-man crew, but also the haunting silence of those who never returned. Tripp writes with the precision of a trained legal mind — he was a solicitor by profession — and the sensitivity of a natural storyteller, producing a memoir that stands among the finest personal accounts of Bomber Command to emerge from the Second World War. Regarded as a classic of wartime literature, the book raises profound questions about duty, survival guilt, and the psychological wounds that linger long after the armistice — leaving the reader to wonder whether any of the eight passengers truly came home unchanged.