VULCAN 607(SPECIAL 30TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION)

Book ID/图书代码： 08145007B16607

English Summary/英文概要： It was to be one of the most ambitious operations since 617 Squadron bounced their revolutionary bombs into the dams of the Ruhr Valley in 1943... When Argentine forces invaded the Falklands in the early hours of 2 April 1982, Britain’s military chiefs were faced with a real-life Mission Impossible. Its opening shot, they decided, would be Operation Black Buck: to strike a body blow at the occupying army, and make them realize that nothing was safe - not even Buenos Aires... The idea was simple: to destroy the vital landing strip at Port Stanley. The reality was more complicated. The only aircraft that could possibly do the job was three months from being scrapped, and the distance it had to travel was four thousand miles beyond its maximum range. It would take fifteen Victor tankers and seventeen separate in-flight refuelings to get one Avro Vulcan B2 over the target, and give its crew any chance of coming back alive. Yet less than a month later, a formation of elderly British jets was launched from a remote island airbase to carry out the longest-range air attack in history. At the tip of the spear was a single aircraft, six men, and twenty-one thousand-pound bombs, facing a hornet’s nest of modern weaponry: the radar-guided guns and missiles of the Argentine defenses. There would be no second chances... It was the end of an era - the last time the RAF flew heavy bombers into combat before they were replaced by their digital, fly-by-wire, laser-guided successors. There were many who believed it couldn’t be done. Drawing on extensive interviews with the combatants, Falklands residents and British High Command, and with unprecedented access to contemporary military records, Rowland White takes us, for the first time, to the beating heart of the legendary raid. "Vulcan 607" is a story of ingenuity, courage and sheer bloody-mindedness that’s destined to become a classic.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这是自1943年617中队向鲁尔河谷大坝发射革命炸弹以来最具雄心的行动之一。1982年4月2日凌晨，当阿根廷军队入侵福克兰群岛时，英国的军事长官们面临着一个现实生活中不可能完成的任务。他们决定，他们的第一枪将是“黑巴克行动”:给占领军一记重击，让他们意识到没有什么是安全的——甚至布宜诺斯艾利斯也不例外……想法很简单:摧毁斯坦利港至关重要的着陆跑道。现实却要复杂得多。唯一有可能完成这项任务的飞机是三个月后报废的，而且它必须飞行的距离超出了最大航程4000英里。它需要15辆维克多加油机和17次单独的空中加油才能让一架阿芙罗•伏尔甘B2飞机到目标上空，并给它的机组人员所有活着回来的机会。然而，不到一个月后，一队老旧的英国喷气式飞机从一个偏远的岛屿空军基地起飞，进行了历史上最长距离的空袭。前锋是一架单架飞机，六个人，还有两万一千磅重的炸弹，面对着一个现代武器的马蜂窝:阿根廷防御系统的雷达制导炮和导弹。不会有第二次机会……这是一个时代的终结——上一次英国皇家空军驾驶重型轰炸机投入战斗是在它们被它们的数码、电传、激光制导的继任者取代之前。许多人认为这是不可能的。通过对战斗人员、福克兰岛居民和英国最高指挥部的广泛采访，以及对当代军事记录的空前获取，罗兰•怀特首次带我们进入了这场袭击的心脏地带的传奇。《伏尔甘607》是一个关于独创性、勇气和纯粹的血腥的故事，注定会成为经典。（WYL）

Awards/获奖情况：“令人兴奋和惊人的速度！——安迪•麦克纳布

“扣人心弦、引人入胜的细节。我一口气读完了这本书:这是一个完全引人入胜的战争故事，写得很精彩。精彩的描述，一个不可能的英国任务的故事，引人注目的。“——克莱夫•卡斯勒

“大型重型轰炸机。适当的老式的英雄主义。创新战胜了有限的资金。就我而言，它有很多，最重要的是，它读起来像小说，但实际上它是事实。我非常喜欢它，它可以是专门为我写的”——杰里米克拉克森

“例外……就像最好的惊悚小说一样，它以一种独特的、真正扣人心弦的方式将读者带入战斗人员的专属世界。”

"Exciting and breathtakingly pacy... This is exactly how modern history should be written" -- Andy McNab "Gripping, endlessly fascinating detail. I read the book in one sitting: it is an utterly compelling war story, brilliantly written" -- Simon Winchester "A masterwork of narrative history. Brilliantly described, the story of an impossible British mission is a compelling one; it’s telling long overdue" -- Clive Cussler "Big heavy bombers. Proper old-fashioned heroism. And triumph of ingenuity over limited funding. So far as I’m concerned, it has the lot and to cap it all it reads like fiction when it’s actually fact. I more than enjoyed it, it could have been written specially for me" -- Jeremy Clarkson "Exceptional... Written like the very best thriller, it draws the reader into the exclusive world of the combat crew in a unique and truly gripping way" -- John Nichol

About the Author/作者介绍： 当阿根廷入侵福克兰群岛时，罗兰•怀特11岁，每天读报纸获取新闻很快成为他的日常生活。从那时起，他就对这场冲突着迷，尤其是火神对斯坦利机场的袭击。他与妻子和三个孩子住在剑桥，从事出版工作。

Rowland White was eleven years old when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands and reading the papers everyday for news quickly became his daily routine. He has been fascinated by the conflict ever since, and in particular with the Vulcan raid on Stanley airfield. He lives in Cambridge with his wife and three children, and works in publishing.

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