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Night After Night: New Zealanders in Bomber Command

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Night After Night focuses on the New Zealand members of the RAF's Bomber Command and their operations over Occupied Europe during World War II. Just under 2,000 paid the ultimate sacrifice and this book is a fine tribute to them.

Drawing together countless interviews with veterans and families, Max Lambert weaves the individual stories together with considerable skill walking the reader through the entire war from the early, disorganised days of operations to the eventual cessation of hostilities. Excellent contextual research supports the chronological recording of stories ranging from training, adventures, narrow escapes, deaths and imprisonment to the rewarding journeys home to New Zealand. The peril faced by these brave airmen will have you shaking your head in disbelief at their survival one moment and then swallowing the lump in your throat upon reading of their loss the next.

This is an extremely valuable, and very readable, account of just part of Bomber Command's campaign and a fitting memorial to the contributions of a small but proud country to that campaign.