No Moon Tonight. (1956, First Edition), Bomber Command

No Moon Tonight by D. E. Charlwood. Publisher: Angus and Robertson, 1956, First Edition. Good hardback with tatty jacket. Boards have some marks, with rubbing, bumping and fading to edges, tape marks inside boards. Ffep has been removed, binding firm, minor marks, foxing. Jacket is torn marked and rubbed, repaired tears. 221 pages. A Bomber Command classic depicting the deep feelings associated with the human cost of the air war in World War II. This is the breathtaking story of a wartime bomber crew facing the hazards of bombing strongly defended targets. A navigator with the RAAF based at Elsham Wolds, Charlwood writes sympathetically and understandingly of the hopes and fears of the crews as squadron losses mounted. No Moon Tonight is a World War II autobiographical book by Halifax/Lancaster/Wellington bomber navigator Don Charlwood. Born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1915 Charlwood joined the Royal Australian Air Force in 1940 and was trained in Canada via the Empire Air Training Scheme.