The Dark Part of the Sky: A Collection of Bomber Command Ghost Stories

Dead men tell no tales... until now.Imagine setting out in a bomber, night after night, knowing that the might of the Luftwaffe is hell-bent on killing you......parachuting from a blazing bomber into enemy territory, having just bombed a nearby city......deciding, day by day, which of your crews you will send out, probably to their deaths, not knowing their fate until they let you know......having a date with the Chop Girl......spending the rest of time haunting your former airfield after failing to return from those ops.What's not to like?In the Second World War more than sixty thousand aircrew of Bomber Command lost their lives on operations or in training. Mostly young and energetic, they died suddenly and traumatically. No spirits could have more reason to remain attached to the places where they lived the last few weeks or months of their earthly lives before they disappeared into the night.Simon Hepworth's latest paranormal tales put a new spin on the sightings, myths and legends of phantom airmen at old RAF stations across England.Contents: Return Trip, Long Descent, Duty Carried Out, Chop Girl, Return of the Brylcreem Boys. NB: 'Return Trip' and 'Long Descent' were previously published separately on Kindle and Audible.

Author: Simon Hepworth
Publisher: Mention the War Limited
Published: 07/09/2017
Pages: 234
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.53d
ISBN: 9780993336041

About the Author
Simon Hepworth has had an abiding interest in the history of Bomber Command since learning, as a child, of the disappearance of his mother's uncle on operations. Once the internet made research into such matters much easier, he investigated the loss of Sgt. Pete Gosnold and his crew. Once he had established what became of them, he set out to write the history of Sgt. Gosnold's unit, 514 Squadron. The result was two books. Striking Through Clouds took the squadron's Operational Record Book, transcribed by Andrew Porrelli and added details of every casualty suffered by the unit. He then wrote a narrative history of 514 Squadron, Nothing Can Stop Us, including personal memories and accounts contributed by Harry Dison who completed a tour of ops with the outfit in 1944. The book is the definitive account of the unit's war. Simon Hepworth's first novel, Late Shift, is a satirical paranormal detective crime drama, representing a whole new genre which is intended to confuse librarians, who would not know which shelf to put it on, after one of their number told him to be quiet in his local library. Once again, the librarians had the last word; as a work of fiction, the book was filed under H. Married to the immensely long-suffering Mandy and with a son, William, Simon Hepworth has a day job, managing the deployment of helicopters and getting annoyed when they break down.

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