A Raid over Berlin

Adapted as a documentary featured on BBC's ONE SHOW Nov 2019 Re-shown with an updated interview with Martin on the ONE SHOW on VE Day, May 8th, 2020. Sunday Times Bestseller. A Daily Mail true life story feature ‘I could see that still, no one had been able to get out from the cockpit. It must have been at this moment that I thought I was going to die because I became remarkably calm’. Trapped inside a burning Lancaster bomber, 20,000 feet above Berlin, airman John Martin consigned himself to his fate and turned his thoughts to his fiancée back home. In a miraculous turn of events, however, the twenty-one-year-old was thrown clear of his disintegrating airplane and found himself parachuting into the heart of Nazi Germany. He was soon to be captured and began his period as a prisoner of war. This engaging and compulsively readable true-life account of a Second World War airman, who cheated death in the sky, only to face interrogation and the prospect of being shot by the Gestapo, before having to endure months of hardship as a prisoner of war. -- Publisher: Parthian Books